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Accelerator partners with VC firm to diversify funding climate

Are venture capitalists funding the same kinds of businesses? A new funding advice series wants VCs to support more diverse founders

Race equality: moving from sentiment to action

Co-founder of Race Equality Matters and CEO of diverse recruitment firm Green Park, Raj Tulsiani is making a final call to action to employers as Race Equality Week enters its final few days

Despite homeworking trend, job flexibility suffers

The pandemic has highlighted great inequalities between those that can work from home, and those that have no flexible working rights at all

Investment in upskilling could boost global GDP by $6.5 trillion by 2030

New report highlights the need for upskilling to be accelerated across all sectors to safeguard the economy

Non-profit’s $5m cash injection will further The valuable 500’s global disability inclusion agenda

Launched at Davos in 2019, The Valuable 500 is on a mission to foster disability inclusion worldwide by disseminating teachings and leveraging the influence of corporate CEOs

Will COVID-19 create more female entrepreneurs?

As a group, women have been one of the pandemic’s biggest economic victims, has this made them hungrier for entrepreneurship?

New Walgreens CEO boosts c-suite diversity

Brewer was the first Black woman to lead a division at Starbucks, now she is joining pharmaceutical retailer Walgreens as its new CEO

Workplace racial equality initiative demands active change from businesses

A new initiative is demanding more from organisations in order to achieve racial equality in the workplace

The Women in IT 2021 series is around the corner

Gender equality in the tech industry is lacking, but the women featured in the ‘Women in IT 2021 series’ aims to tackle these issues head on

Lockdown reveals employee confidence crisis

Workers are struggling with their self-esteem during Covid-19, but these issues are part of a longer-term problem