With National Inclusion Week coming up (25th September - 1st October), please find enclosed an interview with Joanne Lockwood, a Diversity & Inclusion & Belonging Specialist, to find out more about what inclusion and discrimination are like in 2023.
| Published: 24 September 2023
With National Inclusion Week coming up (25th September - 1st October), please find enclosed an interview with Joanne Lockwood, a Diversity & Inclusion & Belonging Specialist, to find out more about what inclusion and discrimination are like in 2023
| Published: 20 September 2023
The majority of organisations leading the way in their commitment to becoming Fertility Friendly to date are medium to large, yet the principle is the same whether you have three or 3,000 employees. Community Interest Company (CIC) Fertility Matters at Work has recently developed its SME tool kit and shares five ways businesses can commit to becoming Fertility Friendly.
| Published: 17 September 2023
The world’s first disability job board Evenbreak today announced it has joined the Disability Ethical AI Alliance (DEAI) in solidarity with leading global organisations such as IBM and the Australian Network on Disability, who are working to ensure HR tech is working for disabled people, not against them.
| Published: 28 August 2023
While gender inequality in tech has dominated discussions in recent times, findings from the new data by Anderson Frank, a Tenth Revolution Group company, show that tangible progress remains elusive. The research findings reveal that women in tech have an average of almost 3 years less experience than their male counterparts, a disparity that may not only impacts their chances of progression but also restricts their access to senior and leadership roles. As it stands, just 26% of those in the UK tech workforce are women. Research by Revolent shows that 87% of the top 500 companies led by female decision-makers last year reported above-average profits, compared to just 78% of companies without a female CEO.
| Published: 27 August 2023
A Revolutionary, New Study Examining Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) Found That Blacks (50 Percent), Middle Eastern (50 Percent), and LGBTQIA+ (45 Percent) Workers Were the Most Affected
| Published: 15 August 2023
EDGE Certified Foundation has published a DE&I legislative overview of the top 20 countries by current EDGE Certifications. The EquiNations overview shows that the vast majority of the 20 researched countries have implemented legislation to safeguard against discrimination in employment based on gender, race/ethnicity, nationality, LGBTQ+ identity, age, or working with a disability.
| Published: 26 July 2023
After a competitive application process, 12 engineering businesses have joined the Royal Academy of Engineering’s new programme to provide impactful interventions that support inclusive leadership in an engineering context.
| Published: 26 July 2023
Woke used to mean being alert to racial discrimination and prejudice but moved to encompass a broader awareness of social inequalities from background, generation, faith, ethnicity, sexuality, or gender, but are we now “too woke”. Most businesses have a DE&I strategy, some are more embedded and actioned than others, but is there a balance to be struck and should the volume be turned down on ‘sensitivities’?
| Published: 13 July 2023
New statistics from renowned STEM recruitment consultancy, Matchtech highlights the growing need to diversify as 50% of companies struggle to hire and retain a skilled workforce across core STEM sectors.
| Published: 8 July 2023
