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Black & South Asian Women in the UK Have to Wait Two Months Longer to Land Their First Job, Despite the Highest Levels of Career Confidence

 

New report from Totaljobs and The Diversity Trust highlights career progression challenges for Black and South Asian women in the UK.

  • Black and South Asian women have higher levels of confidence about their career trajectory than White colleagues, but face barriers to progression due to racism and sexism
  • Two thirds of Black and South Asian women at managerial level believe that their ethnicity or gender has impacted their progression into a position of leadership
  • Two thirds of Black and South Asian women have felt the need to code-switch at work, while 79% have faced discrimination
  • As a result, almost two thirds (62%) of Black and South Asian women report their wellbeing at work has suffered

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Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD)

  Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) is the international day on 27 January to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, the millions of people killed under Nazi Persecution and in recent genocides in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur. 27 January marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp … Continued

Brief for Procurement of Black History Resource List

The South West Heritage Trust is looking to procure a consultant to create a resource list and a digital resource pack for the study of Black History in Somerset, and to enhance existing popular school loans boxes in the Somerset Heritage Loans Service. The results will be used to raise awareness of Somerset’s diversity, to … Continued

Diversity Trust AGM – Executive Director’s Report 20/21

  Quite a year, quite a journey! In March I thought the world had ended, COVID struck, lockdowns began and all our courses were being cancelled. I was grateful for the security provided by our grant income, which kept us going in those first few months of the pandemic.

National Inclusion Week 2021

Inclusive Employers is the UK’s leading membership organisation for employers committed to making inclusion an everyday reality.   This week saw the celebration of National Inclusion Week 2021, a programme of activities run by Inclusive Employers to celebrate inclusion and diversity and unite colleagues across the world with the goal of making inclusion an everyday reality … Continued

Every Victim Matters Receives Five Year Lottery Grant

Stand Against Racism & Inequality (SARI), the regional Charity for tackling hate crime, are very pleased to announce they have secured a new 5-year grant from The National Lottery Community Fund to continue with and develop their Every Victim Matters service for tackling hate crime throughout the counties of Bath and North East Somerset, North … Continued

Skin Deep & The Diversity Trust Announce Partnership

  As we reflect on the past and look for ways to ensure that we build a future that’s more inclusive and empowers everyone, now more than ever it is important to create everyday products that reflect the society we live in. Today, with this in mind, Skin Deep announces its partnership with The Diversity … Continued

Immigration to the UK for LGBT+ People

COVID-19, Brexit and the US election have meant that news stories which would usually make the headlines are getting no coverage at all. That’s helping the government to go unchallenged on serious and important issues. The experiences of those seeking asylum in the UK and the rest of Europe on the basis of their sexual … Continued