Responding to the Dobbs Decision: The Stakes for our Workplaces, including Universities

As sociologist Bill Bishop documented in The Big Sort, Americans increasingly choose where to live and work based on the political and cultural affinity they feel towards particular localities and firms. The result has been an evolution of communities and firms that are increasingly homogeneous in their political ideologies and cultural attitudes, and increasingly hostile towards competing perspectives. By re-igniting the debate over abortion rights and ceding authority to state legislators, the Dobbs decision has enlarged the space for political ideology to drive decisions of where to live and work. Firms will be pressed by their employees to take stands on the issue, both in the political arena and in their human resource policies. The same will undoubtedly be true of universities.

Professors David Clingingsmith and Mark Votruba will lead a discussion of these issues and probe the implications of the Dobbs decision for universities like CWRU.

Light refreshments will be provided!
 

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