Gender

Culture counts but iamtheCODE is pushing through to help girls in Africa

Women in Africa need safeguards, an education and a fairer legal system to achieve gender equality says Lady Mariéme Jamme

US investment firm holds corporates to account on inequality figures

A US investment manager is hitting corporates with resolutions to make them publish their gender and ethnicity pay gap data. Will their investors care?

Who runs the world? Girls – almost as female leaders in politics rise

Whether the VP, President, or PM, female leaders in politics posses an unfathomable strength of character, from which corporations can learn

Make International Women’s Day more than a box-ticking exercise this year

For years firms have been paying lip service to International Women’s Day. Inspired Human’s Perrine Farque calls for 2021 to be the year of challenge

The reason(s) why businesses are stalling on gender pay gap reporting

After having last year off, UK businesses have to submit their gender pay gap data by April 4. Why are they being slow in coming forward?

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

High-level diversity and inclusion role key to driving organisational change

Commonwealth Financial Network bolsters its diversity, equity and inclusion strategy with new C-suite recruit.

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

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?

The impact of Biden’s LGBT+ order in the workplace

President Biden has issued an order that will further protect LGBT+ employees. Here’s what UK employers can learn from it