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...policy "blatant" discrimination and adding, "A woman is not required to be a Victorian broodmare." If the Supreme Court rules for Johnson Controls, then by some estimates up to 20 million jobs, many of them well paid, could eventually be closed to women. Gulf Oil, B.F. Goodrich, Du Pont and Eastman Kodak are just some of the companies that have instituted fetal-protection policies since a federal court upheld such measures in 1984. Johnson Controls estimates that more than half its production jobs are barred to fertile women...
Shortly after he took over as chairman of Delaware-based E.I. Du Pont de Nemours two years ago, Edgar Woolard called a meeting of his company's 325 top managers at Palm Beach, Fla. Looking out at a roomful of white men, peppered with fewer than a dozen women and minorities, the new boss delivered a stunning ultimatum. The next time Du Pont's managers gathered, Woolard said, he'd better see significantly more women and minorities in the room. Last March, when Woolard and 390 executives attended the company's leadership conference in Chantilly, Va., 25% of those present...
...must address them. Otherwise they will fail to fulfill a vital responsibility of any firm: recruiting and nurturing strong future managers. Learning how to lead a diverse work force may be maddeningly complicated. But the alternative, management experts predict, may be alienated employees working at cross purposes. At Du Pont, an exhaustive series of new training courses helps employees explore sensitive issues dividing the sexes and races. In a three- day program, men and women hash out their differences in an encounter-style setting. Another seminar explores a topic that only recently has gained boardroom respectability: how management attitudes affect...
...resistance, they are easily bent out of shape. In the mid-'80s, solid "disk" wheels made of Kevlar improved matters but were somewhat hard to control in crosswinds. A solution came early this year from Specialized Bicycle Components of Morgan Hill, Calif.: a three-spoke wheel developed with Du Pont. Specialized's wheel, a composite of carbon fiber, epoxy resin, Kevlar and aluminum, has an air-foil shape, and was designed with a Cray supercomputer. Tests proved the wheels are faster and more durable than traditional ones...
...East European countries. In the meantime, plastic-foam manufacturers in the U.S. say they will stop using CFCs in their products, and Vermont has decreed that the chemicals must be eliminated from auto air-conditioners in new cars sold in the state after 1993. Major CFC suppliers like Du Pont are developing substitutes that are much less harmful to the ozone...