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CSA SPEAKER BULLETIN WOMEN'S VOICES
Turning Dame Inga Beale is a former CEO of Lloyd’s of
Awareness London and a workplace equality advocate. A
into Action British businesswoman with over three decades of
experience in global financial services, Inga talks
here about the progress being made toward a
more inclusive society and workplace for all.
Last year we celebrated 100 years independence later in life as the • the UK unemployment rate of the
of a very special milestone for average pension wealth of women
women in the UK and Ireland. in the UK aged 65 is £35,800 – just 7.6 million people of working age
In February 1918 history was made 1/5th of men the same age. It starts reporting a disability is 8% vs 3.3%
when, after decades of campaigning, early on in life even to the extent that for those without disabilities 4
women were given the right to female apprentices earn 21% less per
vote – a real breakthrough towards hour than their male counterparts. 1 Many people are of the view that if
achieving a more equal, inclusive we can solve the gender imbalance,
world. This is just a reflection of one section we can solve the imbalance for other
of the workforce but when we look at under-represented groups. I say it’s up
So how inclusive is our world today? others there are worrying facts… to all of us to take diversity seriously
How inclusive are our societies and and to think about how to create
our businesses? • almost one in five LGBT staff (18%) inclusive societies and workplaces for
all.
While much has improved and have been the target of negative
we have a growing new industry comments or conduct from
– diversity & inclusion consulting – work colleagues in the last year
there’s still much more to do. because they're LGBT 2
Gender pay gap reporting this • just 84 of the 1,048 director 1 https://www.insuringwomensfutures.co.uk
year showed a quarter of firms 2 https://www.stonewall.org.uk
have a pay gap of more than 20% positions in the FTSE100 3 https://www.theguardian.com
in favour of men. And this has 4 https://reserachbriefings.files.parliament.uk
serious consequences for financial companies last year were from
an ethnic minority, and that had
fallen from 85 3
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