Fri Oct 21, 2022 – 8:03 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — The National Hockey League (NHL) is deciding to focus on so-called “diversity and inclusion” after an internal report finds 83.6 percent of its employees are white.
On Tuesday, the NHL released a report entitled, Diversity and Inclusion: NHL Report on Strategies, Initiatives, and Progress. The report, which provides an overview of the NHL’s internal demographics, found that 83.6 percent of their workforce is made up of white people, leading a league executive to say the organization has “a ways to go,” with the commissioner vowing to use the data to shape future policies.
“The whole purpose behind doing a workforce study is to provide a baseline: a fact-based baseline so that you can begin to develop very intentional and specific strategies around where you need to hire, how you need to hire, how you need to improve your brand,” executive vice president of social impact, growth initiatives & legislative affairs, Kim Davis, told the Associated Press.
“This is a good start, but there’s a ways to go,” she added.
The study, conducted through a survey in which 67% of the NHL’s approximately 4200 employees took part, also
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