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Minority startup accelerator turns to social impact

Diverse social impact startups are the desired applicants for a new accelerator programme, could they influence representation across the business world?

Will COVID-19 remote working culture bring more women into IT?

Female under-representation in IT remains a huge challenge. Can recent changes in working culture help organisations bring more women into IT?

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?

Diverse recruitment doesn’t exist in fintech yet, says new report

Despite its reputation for innovation, the fintech sector is troubled by a culture of silence on diversity.

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

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

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

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