PepsiCo aims to remove barriers for Hispanic women

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The program is important, as these women "are more challenged with gender bias, with cultural and systemic barriers," said Perez. Full Story: [KTVT-TV (Dallas-Fort Worth)]( (9/20) [LinkedIn]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Email]( [] [How to guide identity language in the workplace]( Ask employees how they want to be identified, discourage language that defines people by a disability and avoid words that diminish a person's identity, writes Alida Miranda-Wolff, CEO of Ethos. "To say 'non-white,' for example, is like saying, 'there are white people, and then there is everybody else,'" Miranda-Wolff writes. 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