The Diversity Project

Helena Morrissey: DEI schemes helped fuel backlash

The Diversity Project chair says some initiatives were exclusionary and prioritised identity over merit

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FCA harassment rules due ‘very shortly’ as City women demand tough action

The regulator’s bullying and abuse crackdown must not get drowned out by the backlash against diversity, top women in finance say

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Meet the ex-Olympic swimmer who dreams of becoming a fund manager

Anum Bandey is hoping to land a money-managing role at Aviva Investors where she now works

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'It’s not just prescriptions and hormone replacement therapy, diet, adjustments at work - it’s all of the above,' says Pippa Andrews, director of corporate business at Vitality

Insurance giants lag on menopause: ‘It feels like the mental health situation 15 to 20 years ago’

A Diversity Project survey shows 37% do not have private medical insurance which covers menopause

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'There are big pockets of no progress whatsoever', Dame Helena Morrissey says

City faces ‘fear factor’ over reporting sexual harassment

MPs on the Treasury Committee are told women often fear speaking out about workplace sexual harassment

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Baroness Morrissey's Diversity Project is broadening its regional footprint

Helena Morrissey-backed diversity group gears up for European launch

Axa IM, HSBC and T Rowe Price are among the eight founding member firms of the cross-border initiative

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Referring to the CBI, Baroness Morrissey said that things have moved a long way in nearly six decades

Helena Morrissey, Gina Miller on scrapping the CBI: ‘Its time has passed’

'There is no single organisation that can speak on behalf of business, including to the government, in today’s world'

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Clockwise from top left; Bhavini Parmar, Arpita Bhabhera, Dhana Mariappan and Imogen Millington

Meet the next generation of female fund managers

The first participants on the Diversity Project's Pathway programme hope to inspire other women to consider a career in portfolio management

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More than half the respondents who took part in the report said they had faced challenges at work or with recruitment due to their neurodiversity

City workers silent on neurodiversity over career limitation fears

Neurodiverse individuals represent an estimated 15% of the UK but largely have been excluded from the growing conversation about diversity and inclusion

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City Hive boss Shah urges the City not to get too fixated on the data

City must ‘own the bad numbers’ on ethnic diversity and start talking about action

Diversity Project event calls on financial services not just to collect the numbers, but to discuss what might affect change

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Black finance workers do not feel they can be their full selves at work, says Gavin Lewis, a BlackRock managing director

BlackRock’s Gavin Lewis: Black workers can’t be their ‘full selves at work’

'We hire diverse candidates but we don’t manage diverse candidates,' says BlackRock managing director and diversity champion

Helena Morrissey’s lobby group pushes for 30% female fund managers by 2030

Asset managers have been making 'painfully slow progress' in their efforts to entice more women into the industry – a sense of fatigue now surrounds the topic of gender diversity