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I like to consider diversity in two different ways. The first is looking at business and the second is ‘personal style’.
Organisations are not simply composed of one type of individual with one set of skills but a whole set of abilities. This view was underlined …

I am going to disappear!! Apparently…..
According to new research published this week from Harriet Harman’s recently established Women’s Commission, as women hit 50 they disappear from public life and if you are even considering a career in the media you are on borrowed time as …

Diversity starts in the home, then moves into the nursery, to school, high school, then further education and finally the work place. It’s a state of mind, not a policy.
Big business loves to tell you about their diversity policies at the same time as publishing …

Diversity is an appropriate theme to alert readers to the launch of a recent education report entitled “By Diverse Means”. A title inspired by a quote from Montaigne, suggesting that we can arrive at the same destination, but by taking different paths: http://reformscotland.com/public/publications/bydiversemeans1.pdf.
I represented the …

Why business benefits from identifying dyslexia in enterprising women
Dyslexia is a learning condition characterised by cognitive issues with short-term memory and information processing.
In 2001 research from Julie Logan at the University of Bristol reported 1 in 5 of the UK entrepreneurs they surveyed was dyslexic. …

Girls wear pink, Boys wear blue.
Girls play with dolls, Boys play with toy trucks.
Women are hairdressers, Men are plumbers.
Women are nurses, Men are doctors.
These are just a few of the gender stereotypes which we’ve all heard, and maybe even reinforced, with our own life choices.
When …