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An overview of news, trends and research in the category Diversity in the UK:

Consulting firms co-found WEF's Racial Justice in Business forum The World Economic Forum has launched ‘Partnering for Racial Justice in Business’, a global initiative that brings leading responsible companies together with the aim of promoting the diversity and i
17 February 2021
One third of PwC's recruits have an ethnic minority background Big Four firm PwC has ramped up its ethnic minority hires over the last year.
05 February 2021
10 powerful women in professional services: Wealth industry City Wealth has unveiled the 2021 edition of its annual ‘Powerwomen’ list – a list of female leaders in the UK’s asset and wealth management sector.
04 February 2021
Grant Thornton launches new Inclusion Advisory Board As the firm attempts to further improve its diversity and inclusion efforts, Grant Thornton has created a new Inclusion Advisory Board for its company.
06 January 2021
BCG's LGBT+ community Pride@BCG wins Business Equality Award Boston Consulting Group has been commended for its efforts to support LGBT+ rights in the business community.
23 December 2020
MCA launches Women in Consulting Network The Management Consultancies Association has launched a new group to help promote more women entering the sector.
07 December 2020
Kearney punches above its weight in Global Diversity List The Global Diversity List is an annual list published in The Guardian that celebrates leaders in the field of diversity and inclusion.
30 November 2020
Kearney launches tool for gender equality in supply chains Global consultancy partnership Kearney has helped launch a benchmarking tool helping businesses improve opportunities for women-led businesses in supply chains.
24 November 2020
Seven professional services firms offering top social mobility in UK A new ranking of UK employers has revealed that some of the professional services sector’s biggest players offer recruits the best opportunities for social mobility in the country.
12 November 2020
27 consulting firms sign Race at Work Charter An array of consulting firms have signed up to the Business in the Community Race at Work Charter, an initiative that aims to improve outcomes for Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) employees in
05 November 2020
RSM's CEO Jean Stephens on diversity and inclusion When Jean Stephens was appointed to the role of CEO of RSM International in 2006, she became the first female to lead a top 10 global accounting heritage professional services firm.
05 October 2020
Bias prevents diversification of professional services partnerships A new study has highlighted the continued need for change when it comes to diversity and inclusion at the top of Britain’s largest accounting and consulting firms.
07 September 2020
North Highland steps up its diversity and inclusion efforts Global consulting firm North Highland has sought to increase its diversity and inclusion efforts throughout 2020.
07 September 2020
Consulting firms join drive for promoting Black talent Redington, Aon, Lane Clark & Peacock and Mercer have joined a coalition of financial services firms aiming to promote Black talent.
03 August 2020
Business leadership diversification slows in UK and US Despite mounting evidence suggesting diverse firms perform better than businesses with more homogenous leadership, progress on gender balance in senior levels of global businesses continues to procee
09 July 2020
Only 11 of the Big Four's 3,000 UK partners are black The consulting industry is currently part of a major corporate drive to play a bigger role in combating systemic racism across the UK, but a closer examination of companies’ track records often shows
06 July 2020
Meet UK's 80 female technology leaders of tomorrow Eighty professionals have been named a ‘Future Star of Tech’, of which around twenty work in the consulting industry.
01 June 2020
UK and US lag behind global progress on executive diversity Less than one-third of UK firms have any ethnic diversity on their executive team, according to a new report.
20 May 2020
Representation in FTSE 100 boards improves steadily The number of women appointed in the boardrooms of large European companies continues to gradually rise, according to a new report from Korn Ferry.
01 May 2020
Innovation and R&D scene still far from gender equality Despite gender diversity and inclusion consistently being said to be top of the corporate agenda, innovation and research and development remain very male-dominated scenes.
20 April 2020
One third of board positions in FTSE 100 held by women While regulatory pressure finally seems to be driving firms to improve the number of women in business leadership roles, the UK is still making slow progress on the matter.
26 March 2020
Firms pay lip service to gender equality but have no plan to improve As the world prepares to mark the contributions of women to public life and call for global gender equality on International Women’s Day 2020, a new study suggests businesses are failing to walk the
06 March 2020
Capco joins consulting heavyweights in Valuable 500 scheme Capco has become the latest consulting industry member to sign up to a campaign to encourage the inclusion of disabled people in businesses.
30 January 2020
Korn Ferry's Sarah Chorus on the courage needed for D&I change While the importance of diversity and inclusion is broadly agreed upon by the majority of business leaders, many organisations still fall short of living up to their commitments.
15 January 2020
Proportion of female-founded start-ups doubles in UK While the number of UK female-founded start-ups has doubled over the last decade, a colossal funding gap means that male-founded businesses still outnumber them by nearly ten-to-one.
19 December 2019
Financial services could unlock $700 billion by better serving women Financial services companies are costing themselves as much as $700 billion every year by failing to take adequate steps to better understand the needs of female clients.
27 November 2019
Bain & Company expands unpaid parental leave scheme in UK Global strategy consultancy Bain & Company has sought to improve the gender equality in its upper echelons by providing a parental leave package that does not “imply or even financially force the bir
20 November 2019
Majority of women do not feel 'believed' on gender inequality The majority of men believe that women are treated equally in the workplace, while only 31% have experienced a co-worker being treated unfairly because of her gender, according to a new survey.
11 September 2019
Companies resist quotas despite slow gender diversity progress Despite progress on gender balance in senior levels of global businesses proceeding at a snail’s pace, corporate entities remain hostile to regulation or diversity quotas.
16 August 2019
Portion of women in management scarcely improves in decade Removing barriers in the workplace to increase diversity continues to be a focus for large businesses globally.
15 August 2019
Half of UK workplaces have no measures to deal with abuse Two years after the #MeToo movement burst onto the scene, progress in UK workplaces has been slow at best, while almost a third of workers in Britain feel their employer’s harassment policies have ac
09 August 2019
Claire Reid named PwC Scotland's first female leader PwC has named Claire Reid as the head of its Scotland wing, replacing the outgoing Lindsay Gardiner.
08 August 2019

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