Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)


Diversity, equity, and inclusion is used in corporate spaces to encompass efforts by business leaders to make their spaces more diverse, fair, and inclusive. In this understanding, Diversity initiatives aim to increase the number of people from marginalized backgrounds in places where they are underrepresented — for example, on a company’s board. Equity efforts are those that seek to promote justice, impartiality and fairness within the procedures, processes, and distribution of resources by institutions or systems while Inclusion is an organizational effort in which different groups or individuals having different backgrounds are culturally and socially accepted and welcomed, and equally treated.