Amey has completed the fourth cohort of its award-winning Women@Amey Leadership Development Programme, a proven initiative helping to close the leadership gender gap in infrastructure and engineering. Since its launch in 2017, the majority of participants have progressed into new ...
Read More »Bidvest Noonan joins the 30% Club
Bidvest Noonan has joined the 30% Club’s global campaign. Supported by Board Chairs and CEOs, the 30% Club is committed to achieving better gender balance – both at leadership levels and throughout organisations – to ensure better business outcomes. Bidvest ...
Read More »Sodexo recognised in The Times Top 50 for second consecutive year
The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025, announced by Business in the Community (BITC), The King’s Responsible Business Network, has recognised Sodexo UK & Ireland for the second consecutive year. Now in its 15th year, The Times Top ...
Read More »Gender diversity needs to be a strategic priority if the built environment industry is to tackle skills crisis
Tackling the UK construction sector’s biggest challenge will prove impossible as long as businesses persist in simultaneously paying ‘lip service’ to gender diversity while refusing to make structural and cultural changes to their operations, according to the Circle Partnership. PwC’s ...
Read More »Willmott Dixon focuses on diversity in key trades for International Women’s Day
Willmott Dixon is marking this year’s International Women’s Day on 8 March with a new initiative to increase the number of women on its sites working in the seven trades of M&E, drylining, façades (cladding and brickwork), framework, groundwork, carpentry ...
Read More »Changing the landscape: How Rebecca Fryer is accelerating growth for women in grounds maintenance
Rebecca Fryer is regional manager for Grounds Maintenance at Nurture Group. She has been with the company for 3.5 years and has quickly worked her way up through the ranks. Fryer is passionate about encouraging and supporting the progression of ...
Read More »Women into Construction ceases trading after 16 years
As of 15 August 2024 Women into Construction (WiC), an independent not-for-profit organisation that promotes gender equality in construction ceased trading. In a statement on the organisation’s website, Kath Moore MBE, Managing Director – Women into Construction CIC said: “Financially, WiC ...
Read More »Company of the Year award for Pareto FM
Pareto FM has been crowned ‘Company of the Year’ at the prestigious WeAreTheCity Awards, which celebrate organisations that are leading the way in promoting gender diversity and supporting women’s advancement in the workplace. Pareto FM says this accolade is a ...
Read More »Sodexo acknowledged for its commitment to gender equality in the workplace
Sodexo UK & Ireland has been named as one of The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2024 for making gender equality a priority in the workplace. Now in its 14th year with Business in the Community (BITC), The ...
Read More »Nearly one fifth of large employers don’t carry out gender pay gap reporting, despite legal requirement
The latest findings from the CIPD’s Pay, performance and transparency 2024 report, supported by ADP, a global technology company providing human capital management (HCM) solutions, show that an alarming number of employers are not conducting their gender pay gap reporting ...
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