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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?

Bias in recruitment: over-50s three times more likely to be long-term unemployed

Centre for Ageing Better warns that attitudes towards the over-50s risk them being shut out of employment

Dearth of female STEM students fuels skills gap

More female role models in the STEM industry are needed to plug the gender and skills gap at work

Black Girl Finance: challenging the lack of ethnicity pay gap reporting

We all already know about the impact of gender pay gap but what happens when we add on the intersectionality of race?

Human-centric innovation: how to drive a trusted D&I future

Fujitsu’s Head of Diversity, Inclusion and Wellbeing – Kelly Metcalf – shares her top predictions for D&I in 2021

Majority of working mothers have been refused furlough

More than 70% of working mothers who asked to be furloughed for childcare reasons since schools shut have been refused

Was 2020 a watershed year for D&I? The blue touch-paper is lit for 2021

Chris Parke, CEO at Talking Talent calls for leaders to do more to make our working lives more agile and flexible in 2021

Employers must prioritise D&I efforts to champion workers in Lockdown 3.0

As the reality of the next few months sinks in, more parents once again face the hardships of home schooling and home working, or furlough

Supporting businesswomen through a global pandemic

2020 has put us all through trials and tribulations, but how do you navigate a global pandemic as a businesswoman?

How can we make flexible work policies more inclusive?

2020 has seen the rise of flexible work policies, but what can be done to make them more inclusive in the future?