Best Practice

Uber drives diversity through targeting executive bonuses

Ride-hailing company, Uber seeks to increase the number of women and underrepresented people in leadership roles.

Do you have a disabled child or children? Should your employer care?

Suzy Rowland, Founder and CEO of the #happyinschool project, on whether employers should extend benefits to employees with disabled children.

Macho madness – getting around the diversity problem of innovation

Innovation has a diversity problem – one borne of macho madness. Alf Rehn, Professor of Innovation at the University of Southern Denmark, explores the impact of macho madness and lack of diversity within the innovation industry and how this can be solved.

Let’s talk about race. Project Race: big, bold and brave on diversity and inclusion

Rob Neil is a long serving civil servant and for the last three years was head of the Ministry of Justice’s Project Race a fixed term and radically new effort aimed at supporting the department’s diversity and inclusion aims and turning the dial on race equality.

Eliminating ads with gender stereotypes – a move towards gender equality

The Advertising Standards Authority has banned all ads with gender stereotypes with hopes to promote gender equality and diversity, as well as, get rid of the inaccurate stereotypes that surface because of the media.

Why women in STEM need to be the forerunners of change

Lori MacVittie, Principal Threat Evangelist at F5 Network, talks about her experience as a woman in the STEM industry and provides advice to inspire women in the sector.

How Men in Black relates to inclusivity and diversity in the tech industry

In this new adventure, they tackle their biggest threat to date: a mole in the Men in Black organisation.

Women in Finance winners: the formula to success in the industry

In the first of two interviews, we speak with eight inspirational winners of the Women in Finance Awards, on what it takes to be at the top of their game.

Three steps to help women access technical retraining

Over £3bn could be added to the UK economy if more women took on STEM careers. It’s never too late to start a new career. Kate Koehn, Program Manager, Amazon Web Services (AWS), explains how technical retraining helped her do just that.

Cultivating a fair workplace: the Nursing & Midwifery Council way

Diversity and inclusion, internally and externally, is high on the agenda at the Nursing & Midwifery Council. Here’s why…