Why is Diversity Important?

6 reasons why Diversity is Important in 2020.

Diversity is evidently to have many benefits to a diverse workplace environment. However, working is not the only activity that we perform daily, we also have our social lives, our relationships in our community. In this article, we will learn:

• Why diversity is important to our society?
• Why is cultural diversity is important?
• Why is diversity important in school?

There are many reasons why diversity is important

Opening up Productivity power

Cultural diversity is very popular in western countries such as the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. New immigrants move into these countries every day and become part of the community. A diverse working environment welcomes hiring diversity, and logically when you are more open to more candidates regardless of their diversity, you have more choices. Diversity can be in many different diversity dimensions. Every person is unique and the more someone is different than you, it is more likely their skills and knowledge will be different from you. An example would apply to the same careers too, a dentist who studied in Korea likely have a different experience than a dentist who studied in Cuba. Not only the knowledge is acquired and delivered differently, but the population of patients would also be different too. With regulations aside, now, if a dental clinic is hiring for a new dentist in South Africa, and the clinic values diversity and inclusion. They now have two great dentists to choose from given the large pool.

The same example applies to an economist, data scientists, hairdressers, and many other professionals. The society is the summation of everyone, if society welcomes more diversity, it will have more variety and productivity.

Reduce Discriminations and Racism

When you experience or see more of something, it will become normal. Putting biology aside, and have an example. When you first see a polar bear in Africa, you may find it strange because it is out of your typical experience. However, once you see more polar bears in Africa you will start to believe it is normal.

The same ideas apply to discriminations. If you are introduced to or become more aware of a different culture, race, gender in a diverse environment or society. You tend to become less discriminating because of your new world experience. The citizen in the society

More Colorful life experience

Our world view changes the way we experience our lives, as we describe above. When you interact, socialize, and work with people from different experiences, you can hear and learn from people. Not many people are fortunate enough to be able to travel the world, or work as an ex-pat in many different counties. Alternatively, we can learn from people coming from different backgrounds.

Building a more balanced world

Extremists usually have extreme views because they do not have the opportunity to understand the other sides’ arguments. Having diversity and inclusion will improve the balances of opinions, views in any setting. A well-balanced world will accept different opinions and reduce fears towards differences.

Inviting more investments

As discussed in the benefits of diversity in the workplace, diversity can add different segments to a community. For example, gender diversity will bring in investment and innovation from different gender; cultural diversity will bring in ideas and traditional wisdom from other cultures; age diversity will bring in experience and problem-solving methods from people with different historical experiences. All these ideas will bring attract different investment because people in a diverse environment understand the needs better.

More creativities and ideas

Continuing on the previous point, ideas and innovation will come with diverse investments. According to UNESCO, women comprise 28.8 percent of the people employed in Research and Development. The global breakdown is quite interesting as it shows that the countries performing better in this regard are located in Central Asia, where women comprise 48.1 percent of the R&D workforce. North America and Western Europe occupy the fifth place with women making up 32.3 percent of the people engaged in R&D. Sub-Saharan Africa follows with 31.3 percent. In East Asia and the Pacific, only 23.4 percent of people conducting research are women, while in South and West Asia they encompass 18.5 percent of researchers. Gender diversity brings in diverse views and ways of solving problems.

In an inclusive environment, visible minorities, indigenous, disability people are welcomed to participate just like everybody else. The groups face challenges that are unique to them, and that also means they have observations that others can’t experience.

so really, Why is Diversity Important?

We talked about all the benefits and how diversity can impact our society. Let’s talk about how you are impacting others. Think of a time that you are left out and the awful feeling; on the flip side think about a time where you belong, the excitment that you have in a group?

The right to be able to enjoy the excitment that you have, no matter where you go or who you are with, is the reason we want a diverse and inclusive environment.

Your organization may need someone to champion this important work, a Chief Diversity Officer or leader is often assigned to lead such work.

Originally published at https://diversity.social.