US President Donald Trump declared war on diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) policies in his speech to Congress this week.
He claimed he was outlawing them from the federal government and private sector because they lowered standards in the name of discriminatory initiatives. This is alarming because Trump's ‘war on woke' has given permission for dangerously regressive thinking to rear its head again, ignoring extensive research that shows gender parity in the boardroom boosts the bottom line and is a business imperative. A recent report found some of the Big Four accounting firms look set to miss their UK or global gender diversity targets. The issue is already falling off some corporate agendas. This...
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