All Diversity articles
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InsightShining a spotlight on equality, diversity and inclusion in the build to rent sector
When better to shine a spotlight on equality, diversity and inclusion than during National Inclusion Week? Now in its 10th year, National Inclusion Week celebrates inclusion and encourages employers to take action to create inclusive workplaces.
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News
Mace cuts gender pay gap, but ethnicity pay gap widens
Consultancy and construction firm Mace has revealed a 13.2% improvement in its median gender pay gap over the past year, from 36.4% to 31.6%.
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News
Architecture student Tallulah Bannerman wins Women in Property prize
University of Edinburgh architecture student Tallulah Bannerman has scooped the top prize in the 2022 Women in Property National Student Awards.
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Professional
Black Women in Real Estate addresses the industry's dearth of diversity
BWRE is aiming to boost inclusivity in an industry young professionals increasingly consider a ‘secret sector’
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Insight
Culture has a key levelling-up role
Responding to the government’s levelling-up agenda by investing social capital in our communities to build productivity, boost investment and ensure equitable wealth generation requires the sector to think differently.
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Online
Property industry must have diverse aspirations
Two years ago, the Black Lives Matter protests sharpened many companies’ focus on diversity, equity and inclusion. Kate Parker asks whether genuine progress has been made across the property industry
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Professional
Post-Covid landscape shapes real estate’s next generation
New survey reveals the challenges and opportunities facing young people as they forge careers in property
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Professional
Could flexible working solve property’s gender pay gap?
By making flexible working the norm, employers can help to attract and retain women across the board.
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Insight
How proptech can bolster your property’s ESG credentials
As the need to demonstrate ESG principles rapidly grows in the property sector, so too does the role of digital technology.
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Insight
Let’s stand out as a force for good
Although many of today’s real estate firms are on a pathway towards managing their environmental impact, the route to managing social impact is at a very different stage.
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Professional
Meeting the myriad needs of a neurodiverse workforce
As employers and colleagues, it is our duty to be more informed and offer better support where it is needed.
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Professional
How Pathways to Property has increased diversity in industry
Real estate figures, alumni and participants discuss the benefits of the initiative 10 years on from its launch.
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News
The next frontier in diversity is levelling the field of senior leadership
The property industry has come a long way to create a more diverse environment, but there is still much more to do to ensure its inclusive nature in the long term.
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Insight
Proptech can lead the diversity drive
I wholeheartedly agree with your article ‘Property needs female talent’, with the caveat that in the ‘newer’ areas of real estate, such as proptech, there is the potential for change from the beginning.
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Insight
What do employers need to know about long Covid-related disability?
In Burke v Turning Point Scotland, the Employment Tribunal had to decide whether a man, who caught Covid-19 and experienced fatigue and other symptoms up until his dismissal eight and a half months later, was disabled for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010.
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Online
BossCast: Real estate needs more ‘cognitive diversity’ - Canary Wharf
In the latest episode of BossCast, Canary Wharf Group’s managing director of people, culture and customer experience Jane Hollinshead speaks about the areas where real estate has been successful in championing equality, diversity and inclusion, and the lengths it still has to go.
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News
Manchester opens £2.4m LGBT+ centre as Pride month kicks off
LGBTQ+ charity The Proud Trust has opened a revamped Manchester hub on the first day of Pride month.
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Professional
We need more female leaders
Female representation at board level in real estate stands at a staggeringly low 22%. Following a UK trend, this suggests a lack of female entrepreneurs within the sector.
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News
Take part in Real Estate Balance’s D&I survey
Real Estate Balance has launched its second NextGen survey to find out what sort of experiences younger people working in property are having and how the profession can be made more diverse.
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News
It’s time to close the gender pay gap
The pledges from top UK commercial real estate agencies to close gender pay gaps in the commercial property sector are promising, but they highlight that an industry-wide cultural shift is integral to real change to gender representation in our stubbornly male-dominated industry (p7, 08.04.22).
