Still "Male and Pale" in 2020 - Anonymous employee DICK'S Sporting Goods Employee Review

While making some token efforts towards diversity and inclusion, DSG's remains a company in which white males hold systemic advantage. I'll grant that some of this bias may be unconscious. But it's 2020. That is no longer an acceptable excuse, if it ever was. The two most recent additions to the C-suite are white. The company CEO is white. The president is white. It opens the question of whether the company makes any serious effort to consider nonwhite candidates for executive leadership roles – or, given the dearth of people of color as vice presidents, directors, and managers – for leadership at any level. Footage featuring teams of nonwhite players being gifted equipment and financial assistance plays continuously in the public spaces of the corporate headquarters. I'm not suggesting that the company stop their philanthropy. I am suggesting that they take a more thoughtful approach in how that philanthropy is messaged. I am suggesting that they engage in real dialogue with the communities they seek to support and genuinely listen if those communities express something other than gratitude. D & I extends to gender issues as well. President Lauren Hobart champions the 2020 Women’s Initiative to support professional female athletes while many talented women in the building that she works in are marginalized, spoken over, and discounted. It's an environment where males may make unwanted physical contact with female coworkers. Where men interrupt their female colleagues, and go unchecked. Where microagressions thrive, and the only recognized group advocating for women in the corporate workplace is the "DSG Mom Squad." While working mothers certainly deserve and need support, it is troubling that women are seemingly viewed primarily in their roles as family caregivers rather than as professionals to be championed.