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Tech Talent Charter releases gender diversity report

The Tech Talent Charter (TTC) recently launched its inaugural benchmarking Report – the first report of its kind tracking gender diversity in technology roles across the UK. Gathered from over 200 signatories representing over half a million employees, the data gives a snapshot of today’s tech industry and an insight into practical ways companies can […]

Moving jobs, negotiating a pay rise? Check out what your worth first.

Are you earning what you’re worth? – global executive gender pay gap falls dramatically to 8.7% – UK gap nearly halves since March to 12% – US leads the way with gap dropping to 2% – CEOs have the biggest gender gap of 31% – in Technology, gender gap has reversed in favour of women […]

Challenges in D&I, has progress been made or not?

Retention and Progression of women still needs to be addressed Despite significant investment and profile, corporate Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) remains a war of attrition, with women leading only 4% of the world’s largest banks, 3% of food processing companies and 6% of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies. In a recent white paper Chris Rowe, […]

Use of NDAs in sexual harassment cases – inquiry calls for your views

Scope of the inquiry into use of NDAs Following its recent inquiry into sexual harassment in the workplace, which recommended that the Government should clean up the use of NDAs in sexual harassment cases, the Committee launches a new inquiry to look at the wider use of NDAs in cases where any form of harassment […]

Progress for women stalled in corporate America

For the last four years, companies in the USA have reported that they are highly committed to gender diversity. But that commitment has not translated into meaningful progress. Women continue to be vastly underrepresented at every level. For women of color, it’s even worse. Only about one in five senior leaders is a woman, and […]

UK workplace culture stalls women’s careers

UK workplace culture stalls women’s careers say three in four women and two in five men reports year-long study involving almost 6,000 UK employees. Everyday examples of unintentionally gender biased behaviour in workplace culture are stalling women’s careers, according to a year-long study released on 13 February 2019 by Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge. […]

Hospitality, travel and leisure sector improves gender diversity

This year’s Women in Hospitality, Travel and Leisure 2020 Review shows improvement on gender diversity over the past year. New analysis of gender diversity in the hospitality, travel and leisure sector shows the industry has made positive progress in the past year to address the number of women in senior positions. While improvements have been […]

Promotion chances are reduced for part-time parents

The UK’s working parents are penalised for working part-time and suffer from poorly-designed jobs that force them to work extra hours, according to a major new study published today by Working Families and Bright Horizons. Part-time penalty leaves mothers behind The 2019 Modern Families Index reveals that parents working part time – most of whom […]

Flexible working megatrends

Flexible working is not easily defined. This is because it is often seen by what it isn’t – not the 9-to-5, not the daily commute to a central workplace – as opposed to by what it is. Nevertheless, people think they know it when they see it, and as a result certain working patterns or […]

1 in 4 workplace harassment perpetrators are customers or clients

2 in 5 UK Business Directors Lack Workplace Harassment Training, study finds Leading ethics and compliance software and services company NAVEX Global® highlighted research finding more than 44 percent of UK business directors have never received training on workplace harassment, and 21 percent have only received one training session, according to the report available here. […]