It is obvious that this decision had major (and bad) repercussions in the country. Dozens of large companies protested, federal prosecutors opened investigations and they were sued by various activists.
The global company Natura&Co (which also owns Avon and The Body Shop) signed a manifesto condemning LinkedIn's decision. Other giants such as Oracle, Unilever, Bayer, Ambev and Santander also expressed their support for the rejection initiatives.
And that was not all: the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office of Brazil notified Linkedin to provide explanations on the case. After all this pressure, LinkedIn changed its approach and announced that it would change its policy for Latin America .
But, despite this, this episode alerts us to the need to reaffirm our position regarding inclusion policies .
The word "difference" has the power to provoke oman phone number list various feelings in people, but never indifference. In the dictionary this word is defined as:
1. f. Quality by which something is distinguished from something else.
2. f. Variety among beings and things of the same species.
I would like to highlight here the passage that says “variety among beings of the same species.” I couldn’t agree more, because all people are different. Human diversity allows us to see the world with a wealth of divergent thoughts and plural ways of being.
However, due to our differences or characteristics that make us up (race, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, origin or generation), we are placed in a position of greater or lesser access to resources and opportunities. In that case we would no longer be talking about difference, but about inequality.
As taught by Djamila Ribeiro — Brazilian feminist thinker and writer —, the Social Locus , a common place that runs through our experiences, allows us to see how social dynamics reproduce and feed inequalities.