All Diversity articles
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OnlineBossCast: 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).
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News
Property ‘must try harder’ to bridge the gender pay gap
The GPG is narrowing at a glacial pace in the property and construction sectors, Property Week analysis shows.
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News
Only five in 10 of top agencies publish EPGs
Savills, Gerald Eve, JLL, C&W and Colliers were only ones to publish ethnicity pay gap data.
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News
Unite Students launches commission in response to ‘living black at university’ report
Unite Students has launched a national commission to support the PBSA’s response to its recent published damning report on ‘living black at university’.
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News
Why don’t you mind the gap?
With all the promotions and pay rises dished out by the leading surveying firms in recent weeks, you might be forgiven for thinking that great strides are finally being made in redressing the gender imbalance in the industry’s senior ranks. Sadly, not so.
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News
Industry pledges to ‘make changes today’ to close gender pay gaps
The UK’s top 10 commercial real estate agencies have pledged to “make changes today” in response to Property Week’s analysis of the latest gender pay gap reports.
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News
Gender pay gaps of top UK CRE agencies well above average
Average median hourly gender pay gap across 10 agencies is 31.88%, compared with 9.8% national average.
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News
Savills gender and ethnicity pay gaps increase
Both the mean gender pay gap and the mean ethnicity pay gap at Savills have increased.
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News
Savills appoints new D&I head
Savills has appointed Chanelle Gray as head of diversity and inclusion (D&I) for its UK business.
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News
It’s time to celebrate women’s work
In such a challenging time, this year’s International Women’s Day was a reassuring light
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News
Unite Students issues damning report on ‘living black at university’
Report commissioner Jenny Shaw says the poor experience cited by black students has been a ‘wake-up call’.
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Insight
How the industry has fared in the Covid era
Despite the challenges posed by Brexit and Covid over the past couple of years, some sectors of the property industry feel bullish about the future. Meanwhile, others are trying to adapt to survive. Freeths recently gathered a panel of women to discuss how the industry has changed and what lies ...
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Insight
Who runs the world? Girls!
To mark International Women’s Day, five current and future female leaders from around the world tell Property Week how well they think the UK is doing on diversity.
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News
It is vital we forge an equal workforce for all
Editor: While there has been a tremendous movement to put women at the helm of a previously male-dominated auction industry, there is still a distinct lack of women valuers in the business asset and property sector.
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News
Gender equality in industry ‘not level yet’, says Women in Property chair
The property industry has “deep” issues in its culture that is hindering gender equality, Nicola Jones, national chair of Women in Property, has said.
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Insight
The industry must be more inclusive
Across all industries, the need to ensure a more diverse and inclusive workforce has been declared a priority. A big focal point in these efforts has been the need to increase the number of people from minority groups who are able to meaningfully participate in the labour market, from the ...
