DE&I business and lifestyle brief 2023
December 2023
Festive Cheer, Connection, and Community
2023 has been a milestone year for Equality Leaders: from winning DE&I Consultancy of the Year Award to reaching new heights by appointing an Advisory Council.
READNovember 2023
Do white men have a role to play in DE&I?
DE&I programs have by nature been designed to address the inequities and bias experienced by marginalised groups.
READOctober 2023
Black History is About More Than Oppression
October is Black History Month (BHM) in the UK. All too often Black history is centred upon Black trauma. While it is important to acknowledge and understand the legacy of slavery, it should not be the single narrative told.
READSeptember 2023
Social Mobility and Intergenerational Poverty: A Structural Problem
Being poor means a lived reality defined by stigma, marginalisation, disadvantage, prejudice and structural inequality.
READAugust 2023
Good Immigrants & Conditional Inclusion
By the end of 2022, the UNHCR reported that 108.4 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced as a result of persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations and climate change. More than 1 in every 74 people on Earth has been forced to flee.
READJuly 2023
South Asian Heritage Month: Stories to Tell
SAHM is an opportunity for us to honour, recognise, and celebrate South Asian history and culture, as well as deepen our understanding of the rich cultural legacies of South Asian communities and the contributions they’ve made to our global family.
READJune 2023
Pride Month: LGBTQ+ Lives as Symbols of Love, Freedom & Advocacy
Waves of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and growing hostility towards queer communities are sweeping across the globe from the US to Uganda, Europe and Britain.
READMay 2023
We need to talk about Colourism & Texturism
Catalyst discovered that half (51%) of women from marginalised racial and ethnic groups experience racism at work, and that women with darker skin tones are more likely than women with lighter skin tones to experience racism at work.
READApril 2023
The Intersection of Climate Change & Racial Justice
Black people, Indigenous people and other people of colour are most impacted by, most at risk from, and least responsible for the world’s crisis of climate and nature.
READMarch 2023
Women: Unseen. Underrepresented. Undervalued.
Women leaders say their DEI work isn’t acknowledged at all in performance reviews. Women remain invisible, as do their labours, which go unrecognised and undervalued.
READFebruary 2023
Dispelling the Model Minority Myth
In our racialized world, Asians are cast as the ‘model minority’; a myth which portrays Asians as successful both economically and academically, hardworking and high achieving, and serve as the ideal example of if-they-can-do-it-so-can-you success story.
READJanuary 2023
How Will You Embed DE&I Business Transformation in 2023?
2023 brings each of us the opportunity to take stock of where we are on our change-making journeys. There is much distance yet to cover, to enable the systemic change required. We need to remain purpose-led, and like any other business challenge, DE&I demands a strategy which looks to short, medium, and long term perspectives.
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