Business Case for Diversity
Symes Group helps organisations
set, meet and exceed gender targets
Benefits to championing diversity in the workplace
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"A lack of diversity and presence of monoculture at an organisation will disable any potential creativity and innovation in the organisation. Which can have and has had catastrophic outcomes."
Jessica Symes
"Women’s low participation in the workforce and leadership roles is a business issue – costing women,
companies and ultimately entire economies. More deliberate efforts will be needed by governments and
businesses to ensure that the full talent pool of women is educated, recruited and promoted. The moral case
for gender equality has, in the most part, been won. The business and economic case is also increasingly understood. The Fourth Industrial Revolution now presents an unprecedented opportunity to place women’s
equal participation in the workplace at the heart of preparations for the shifts to come."
Saadia Zahidi
Head of employment and gender initiatives, World Economic Forum executive committee member
We must accept that business in this country was built and set up by men at a time when women were not allowed to work or vote.
The legacy is still around us and not that much time has passed.
Without addressing that, the legacy plays a part in unconscious bias, natural selection for recruitment, policies and procedures, paths to leadership and so on. And to say that legacy does not influence women's position in the workforce is ignorant.
I am not at all saying that there aren’t fantastically aware intelligent individuals in organisations. I am not saying that people are sexist or archaic. What I believe is that the legacy is too strong for individuals to overcome it yet without making clear deliberate choices towards gender equality.
Jessica Symes, CEO/founder, Symes Group
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