The Debate: Should businesses have DEI quotas? January 30, 2025 Trump's America is turning the tide on woke, but are DEI quotas good for business? Our writers hash it out in this week’s Debate.
The class divide: Why social mobility is the missing piece in DEI December 19, 2024 Any DEI framework that’s focused on ethnicity but silent on the messy realities of social mobility risks letting down the very people it’s trying to champion, says Eliza Filby A couple of months ago I was running a workshop for trainees at an international law firm in the UK helping bright Gen Z recruits integrate [...]
30 per cent: Football Association sets diversity target for England coaches November 26, 2024 The Football Association (FA) wants 30 per cent of England men’s team coaches to be from ethnically diverse backgrounds by 2028. The governing body was told earlier this year it needed to “work a lot harder” to create a diverse pool of candidates for the England head coach position by the Black Footballers Partnership. The [...]
In defence of ‘Woke Capitalism’ October 2, 2024 DEI schemes are there to improve businesses and equality. What are the opponents of 'woke capitalism' so afraid of, asks Eleanor Kaye.
How Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively are investing in London’s film industry June 27, 2024 Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively's Group Effort Initiative is teaming up with London film production studio Dimension to nurture underrepresented talent in the UK entertainment industry.
UK tech diversity body to shutter as sector faces ‘going backwards’ June 18, 2024 A UK government-funded body working to increase diversity in the tech sector has decided to close despite saying there is a "real risk of going backward".
Dedicated civil service equality jobs face axe, ‘common sense’ minister announces May 13, 2024 Civil service jobs solely dedicated to equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) are set to be axed, the minister for ‘common sense’ has announced.
The Notebook: The City still has a class problem, and it needs to address it May 9, 2024 Paras Anand, CIO of Artemis Fund Managers, takes the Notebook pen to talk about class, grad schemes and Rory Stewart.
Banking exec: Diversity regulations could ‘dumb down’ corporate efforts already underway January 17, 2024 Tracey McDermott at Standard Chartered told the Following the Rules podcast that the regulator could run into what she called the ‘levelling up problem.’
Power and Potential – gender and generational dynamics across ASEAN December 19, 2023 | Sponsored DiverCity® Podcast · Power and Potential – gender and generational dynamics across ASEAN Recorded live at the Women in Payments ASEAN Symposium, in Singapore on 25 October 2023, with senior leaders, rising stars and industry experts from across the ASEAN region in attendance. Our host Julia Streets is joined by Danielle Sharpe, Chief of Staff [...]