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

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
3 million women in the UK need to transition to new jobs by 2030 More than 3 million women working in the UK are forecast to need to transition to new jobs in the coming decade, as digital disruption ramps up amid Britain’s rapidly automating markets.
12 July 2019
LGBT+ staff paid less and afraid to come out at work LGBT+ workers receive an average annual salary of nearly £7,000 less than their ‘straight’ counterparts, a shocking new poll has revealed.
05 July 2019
KPMG’s Head of Deal Advisory steps down amid 'bullying' storm KPMG’s UK Head of Deal Advisory has stepped down to take a leave of absence “in the wider interest of the firm”, following complaints regarding the way he spoke to colleagues.
03 July 2019
Prime Minister commends BCG's Elliot Vaughn for LGBT+ activism A London-based Boston Consulting Group Partner has been recognised by the UK Prime Minister for his outstanding contribution to international LGBT+ activism.
22 May 2019
One third of Ireland's board members are now female While Ireland is one of the world’s leading countries for gender inclusivity, there is still a great deal of room for improvement on the matter.
14 May 2019
Gender diversity improves private equity and venture capital returns Investment teams working in PE/VC remain largely male dominated, with less than 30% of the sector’s workforce being women.
13 May 2019
Hunt for gender equality stalls in developed world Despite global efforts to improve the standing of women in society, a yawning gender gap still persists, even in the most economically developed nations of the world.
08 May 2019
Closing pay gap would boost earnings of UK women by £92 billion The UK has improved its ranking on PwC’s latest Women in Work Index, with Scotland remaining the region with the most positive outlook for women in the UK, while Wales has seen the most improvement s
26 April 2019
Women remain underrepresented in UK's hospitality industry leadership Female engagement at the top level of the UK hospitality industry is still lagging, with the vast majority of decision-making roles continue to be held by men.
12 April 2019
Mental health of LGBT+ staff neglected by workplaces Mental health in the workplace is perpetually in the spotlight, but the mental health of minorities in the workplace has rarely factored in that conversation.
05 April 2019
Proportion of women in UK consulting falls despite recruitment boom Over the last 20 years, the consulting industry has hired women at the third fastest rate in the UK economy.
08 March 2019
Inclusion of young workers and women key to averting talent crisis Demand for workers is set to rise in the future, with the pool of available workers shrinking in an ageing population.
01 March 2019
Financial services has worst gender pay gap of any UK industry As the annual gender pay gap reporting deadline approaches in the UK, only around one in 10 of the organisations expected to submit their data have done so.
25 February 2019
Lack of women in senior jobs maintains consulting gender pay gap Despite continuously encouraging clients to improve their gender representation and reduce gender pay gaps, the consulting industry of the UK is failing to improve its own outlook on the matter, acco
11 February 2019
Half of UK workers say employers have not progressed on D&I goals While the UK workplace of today might be markedly different from that of just 20 years ago, efforts to promote diversity by employers seem to have stalled in recent times.
07 February 2019
Deloitte, KPMG and PwC reveal UK Partners fired for inappropriate behaviour After the #MeToo movement brought conversations on sexual misconduct to the forefront of the entertainment industry, all other aspects of business swiftly followed.
14 December 2018

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