Corporate Philanthropy that embraces workforce diversity by introducing the world of publishing to America’s under-serviced youth.
Statistics on the Publishing Industry
According to a recent EEOC study, 81.8 % of publishing is white (49.5% women; 32.3% men). 18.2 % are minority (8.4% blacks, 6.2% Hispanics, 3.3% Asian-Americans), while 33% of the population in America is minority.
Conclusions
African Americans and Hispanics are highly represented in lower paying job groups; their presence in book publishing is roughly half of their representation in overall population.
Solutions
The P-2-P program was created to help diversify book publishing in the 21st Century. By identifying and nurturing the next generation of publishing officials, managers, authors and professionals through an enterprise like Page-2-Print, the publishing industry can embrace the changing face of our society, as well as empowering future writers to know all aspects of the publishing industry. Knowledge is power, and the more aware authors are of every aspect of the industry, the more they will be able to exist competitively in an ever-shifting career path.
