All Diversity articles – Page 11
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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).
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It’s time to celebrate women’s work
In such a challenging time, this year’s International Women’s Day was a reassuring light