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Gender resources for individuals

Gender (including gender reassignment) is one of the nine protected characteristics under the Equality Act 2010. ICAEW has collated these resources and information to support its members.
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Women in Leadership (WiL) WIL supports women working across practice, industry and public sectors who are in senior management, partner or board roles. The programme has a strong personal development focus, and seeks to refine and craft your individual leadership style.
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Women in Finance
  • Hub page
  • 05 Nov 2019
A community that provides networking and personal development opportunities to enable women in finance to achieve their potential and lead a career without limits.
Women in business A collection of books, articles and guides on topics of interest to women working in business and accountancy.
Sexism in the City: what progress has been made?
  • Article
  • 31 Jul 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
New inquiry will review whether the financial services industry has met previous recommendations from the Treasury Committee to create a more gender-balanced industry.
International Women’s Day: ICAEW’s inspirational leaders
  • Article
  • 07 Mar 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Women leading ICAEW discuss the biggest issues facing accountancy and offer their career advice.
First Women's Health Strategy for England to tackle gender health gap
  • Press release
  • 20 Jul 2022
  • Department of Health and Social Care and The Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP
The government has published the first ever Women's Health Strategy for England to tackle the gender health gap.
How well is accountancy performing on gender equality?
  • Article
  • 09 Jun 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
As leading lights of the sector are named among the UK’s Top 50 Employers for Women, we look at what the profession is doing right on gender equality – and why there’s still more to do.
Women in accountancy
  • Listing
  • 21 Apr 2011
What ICAEW is doing to support our female members
Of women in the 21st century
  • Podcast
  • 04 Mar 2018
In this podcast for the RSA, Shadow Attorney General, Shami Chakrabarti, argues that gender injustice is the greatest human rights abuse on the planet, and proposes a new way forward.
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Jean Stephens, CEO of RSM
  • Article
  • 08 Mar 2013
Jean Stephens, CEO of RSM, talks about her career path and what might hold women back
Times up! A movement for change
  • Podcast
  • 16 Feb 2018
This podcast from the RSA discusses where this powerful movement will go next. The panel, includes: Laura Bates, bestselling author and founder of the Everyday Sexism project; Helen Pankhurst, author and granddaughter of Sylvia Pankhurst; Ayesha Hazarika, Political Commentator and Comedian and Sophie Walker, Founding Leader of the Women’s Equality Party.
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Making an impact
  • Article
  • 29 Aug 2014
  • Amy Duff
Nutan Wozencroft is CFO of Unesco
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Getting women on boards
  • Article
  • 04 Mar 2015
  • Helen Roxburgh
Helen Roxburgh looks at its merits, and which countries are doing it best
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Women in international development
  • Article
  • 22 Sep 2014
These inspirational women assist communities with their financial know-how
Woman boardroom
Want more women in top positions? Provide more flexibility
  • Article
  • 24 Aug 2017
  • Heejung Chung
Heejung Chung discusses ways to help women maintain their working patterns after childbirth without sacrificing their careers
Sexual harassment at work
  • Article
  • 01 Jan 2017
  • CABA
According to a report commissioned by the TUC and Everyday Sexism Project, more than half of women, and nearly two-thirds of women aged 18-24 years old, have experienced sexual harassment at work. Here CABA outlines what can constitute sexual harassment and provides information on what you can do and the support available.
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Women and finance: the issues
  • Article
  • 06 Jan 2017
  • Faye Watts
With finance remaining unattractive for female applicants, Faye Watts outlines a strategy for getting women running the numbers
Female Firsts
  • No content type
  • 25 Jan 2016
  • ICAEW Library and Information Service
Find out about the key female firsts in accountancy who helped pioneer the way for women in the profession.
Feminist Fight Club
  • Podcast
  • 13 Mar 2017
In her part-manual, part-manifesto “Feminist Fightclub”, journalist and critic Jessica Bennett brings together the personal stories of a group of women who met regularly in New York. In this podcast for the RSA Bennett shares these revealing workplace stats and stories.
Gender equality by design
  • Website
  • 10 Mar 2017
In this RSA podcast, Iris Bohnet, professor of public policy at Harvard University, demonstrates the tools we need to ‘move the needle’ on gender, from classrooms to boardrooms, and offers new research-based solutions for improving businesses, governments and people’s lives.
Women & work: Rethinking the gender debate
  • Podcast
  • 13 Mar 2016
For this RSA podcast, author Dawn Foster, Fawcett Society CEO Sam Smethers and ‘Token Man’ founder Daniele Fiandaca debate the values that shape the way we live and work together.
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