Diversity

The Players Fund, an athlete-led venture capital firm, has announced the inclusion of a distinguished group of female athletes as new partners. Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill, Eni Aluko, Allyson Felix, Nikita Parris, and Danielle Carter are joining forces with the existing athlete investors at The Players Fund. Their role will be pivotal in furthering the firm’s mission to empower athletes in various arenas.

In an effort to promote diversity and inclusion within the engineering sector, the Royal Academy of Engineering unveiled Culture+, an interactive online platform designed for small and medium-sized engineering firms.

Selected from nearly a thousand entries, 11 extraordinary women from across the country have been unveiled as the 2023 winners in the UK’s longest-running recognition programme for female entrepreneurs.

Businesses are making positive strides towards overcoming the historical lack of diversity within the tech workforce, as data suggests that more than half (52%) set diversity targets (up from 46% last year).

It’s vital that employers demonstrate that they are committed to supporting everyone in their workforce by offering inclusive employee perks.

Diversity is more than just a catchphrase in the fast-paced world of technology – it’s a major force behind innovation. Even while progress has been achieved, there is still more work to be done to close the gender gap in the IT sector.

Last week, US President Joe Biden signed a new initiative to support Women’s Health Research, a welcome impulse to close the gender health research gap.

Women in Tech Dorset, a community organisation committed to promoting gender diversity and inclusion in the technology sector, launched a transformative playbook on 15th November.

Redditch entrepreneur Steph Middleton-Foster has been honoured as the Digital Entrepreneur of the Year at the national Digital Women Awards.

In the dynamic world of entrepreneurship, a notable shift has emerged: the rise of entrepreneurs over the age of 50. This demographic, often overlooked in the youth-centric tech industry, is proving to be a formidable force, bringing a wealth of experience, resilience, and innovation to the startup ecosystem.

In the UK, VC funds owned exclusively by men garnered approximately ten times the capital of those owned by women from 2017 to 2023, and nearly five times the capital of funds with mixed-gender ownership.

A recent study by Barrington Hibbert Associates has cast a stark light on the ongoing issues of workplace discrimination, revealing that 25% of employees feel their career progression has been impeded by discrimination based on ethnicity, sexuality, religion, age, or gender. This impediment has profound implications across a spectrum of industries, including finance, legal, healthcare, and education.

As more and more companies strive to harness the power of diversity, we need to ask ourselves a fundamental question: Are we ready?

Family relationships are tricky – they can be a source of both tension and solidarity.

Did you know that neurodiversity in business has been PROVEN to improve the success of a company’s performance?

Over the last decade, the Black British Business Awards have proudly highlighted over 370 game changing rising stars and senior leaders across all UK sectors.

In 2019, Fionnghuala ‘Fig’ O’Reilly became the first woman of colour to win Miss Universe Ireland. She’s worked as a NASA datanaut, is a systems engineer, a specialist in data science, and you can often find her every weekend on CBS’s STEM TV show Mission Unstoppable. On top of all that, Fig is on a mission to close the opportunity gap for black and brown women in STEM through her company – Space to Reach.

On TikTok the hashtag #ADHDinwomen has 4.1 billion views and #autisminwomen has 337.2 million views. However, the recent rise in autism and ADHD diagnosis among women isn’t a passing social media craze, but an appropriate response from a community that has been ignored by our health system.

Aerospace Xelerated has launched a 12-month global mentorship program for university students and professional women designed to help mentees advance their careers in STEM fields, with a focus on aerospace and aviation.

Female-founded companies account for under 3% of venture capital (VC) funding deals involving AI startups, according to new analysis by The Alan Turing Institute’s Women in Data Science and AI team.