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Latest sex discrimination articles from Insights

Read the latest articles on sex discrimination published in ICAEW's Insights hub.
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FTSE 350 Women Leaders Review highlights continuing progress
  • Article
  • 07 Mar 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
Latest report on women in leadership roles at FTSE 350 companies finds that the majority are within striking distance of the 40% target for women’s representation in boardrooms.
5 multi racial hands placed down on table
Gender pay gaps: the methodology minefield
  • Article
  • 20 Jan 2025
  • ICAEW Insights
From the Employment Rights Bill to impending EU Pay Transparency Directive, what are the challenges facing organisations as efforts to tackle gender equity ramp up?
5 multi racial hands placed down on table
ICAEW reaffirms commitment to gender balance
  • Article
  • 01 Oct 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
The number of women in senior roles at ICAEW continues to increase, as the institute delivers on its pledge for a gender balance across financial services.
Don’t bury your head in the sand over pay transparency
  • Article
  • 18 Oct 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
The recent financial crisis faced by Birmingham City Council, the administrative body of the UK’s second-largest city, has sparked important discussions about equal pay, financial management and organisational responsibility.
Birmingham issues Section 114 notice amid financial crisis
  • Article
  • 07 Sep 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Birmingham City Council issues Section 114 notice due to £87m budget gap and significant equal pay liability, halting non-statutory spending.
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.
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Exclusive Does tax policy reflect gender?
  • Article
  • 30 Jun 2023
  • Anita Monteith
  • Taxline
Anita Monteith shares her reflections on the extent to which tax policy still discriminates on the grounds of gender.
Mind the gender pensions gap
  • Article
  • 21 Jun 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
The gender pensions gap today stands at 35%, yet women contribute a higher proportion of their pay into their pension than men. We analyse some of the potential solutions to achieving pensions equity.
Female and ethnic minority entrepreneurs miss out on lending
  • Article
  • 22 May 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
Access to funding and support for women and under-represented entrepreneurs is improving, however they continue to feel estranged from the wider enterprise ecosystem.
International Women’s Day: ICAEW’s inspirational leaders
  • Article
  • 07 Mar 2023
  • ICAEW Insights
How much progress has been made on gender equality in the profession? Women leading ICAEW give their views, discuss the biggest issues facing accountancy and offer their career advice.
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.
Will financial services achieve its ambition of inclusion
  • Article
  • 23 May 2022
  • Financial Services Faculty
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to well documented career setbacks for women and recent survey data shows that their “career optimism” is declining. What will make the difference going forward? 
Using mentoring to combat bias
  • Article
  • 07 Mar 2022
  • ICAEW Insights
Workplace mentoring schemes are well established as a tool to support career development. And with International Women’s Day on 8 March, we focus on their role in overcoming gender bias.
Gender Pay Gap and the accountancy profession: time for a rethink?
  • Article
  • 13 Oct 2021
  • ICAEW Insights
Figures from the latest gender pay gap report show a narrowing in some sectors, but little overall change from previous years. How has the accountancy profession fared when it comes to closing the gap?
87 of FTSE 100 have not yet revealed ethnicity pay gaps
  • Article
  • 12 Oct 2021
  • ICAEW Insights
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has revealed that almost 90% of FTSE 100 employers have yet to declare their ethnicity pay gap figures, hampering a move towards more equal pay.
Gender mainstreaming in practice: lessons from the EU budget
  • Article
  • 16 Jun 2021
  • ICAEW Insights
ICAEW’s Women in EU Finance Network recently hosted an online panel debate looking at how incorporating a gender perspective into fiscal planning and budgetary processes can help with the assessment and targeting of the effects of policy actions and public spending on different genders.
Partnerships urged to ‘make space for mothers’
  • Article
  • 11 May 2021
  • ICAEW Insights
The partnership model remains skewed against mothers and caregivers rising up the ranks unless they have a partner or husband who assumes the lion’s share of the child caring responsibilities, new research has found.
Pandemic triggers a workplace ‘shecession’
  • Article
  • 05 Mar 2021
  • ICAEW Insights
8 March 2021: COVID-19 and its economic fallout are having a devastating and regressive effect on gender equality in the workplace, which in turn will stunt post-pandemic economic recovery, according to two major reports.
European Commission tables binding pay transparency measures
  • Article
  • 05 Mar 2021
  • ICAEW Insights
8 March 2021: The right to equal pay for work of equal value is a founding principle of the EU, but one seldom implemented or enforced in full. With the EU gender pay gap currently over 14%, new legislative proposals seek to remedy this through pay transparency and improved enforcement mechanisms.
Why is fundraising by women so much harder?
  • Article
  • 05 Jan 2021
6 January 2021: “We need to do more to invest in companies that are founded and led by women,” says Armance Bordes, General Counsel at Sofinnova Partners. “There are many studies that point to the gender gap that persists in fundraising, making it so much harder for women to raise capital.”
Fiona Wilkinson on gender equality and women at work
  • Article
  • 23 Mar 2020
  • Fiona Wilkinson
Today, there is broader acceptance of women having senior roles in the workplace, but there are still challenges, writes ICAEW President Fiona Wilkinson
From pioneers to parity: 100 years of women in ICAEW
  • Article
  • 22 Mar 2020
  • Rachel Willcox
Any celebration of how far women have come needs to recognise how far we have to go. Real change is about new ways of thinking rather than new faces, says Rachel Willcox.
Older workers take front line in ‘war for talent’
  • Article
  • 17 Mar 2020
  • ICAEW Insights
Diversity and inclusion are high on the agenda for all businesses keen to attract and retain talent. But are firms overlooking the value of older workers in this mix? And is there a case for mandatory age profile reporting, similar to the gender pay gap requirements?
Data disruptor: look beyond the numbers at the probabilities
  • Article
  • 02 Mar 2020
  • Penny Sukhraj
Vast information streams engulf just about every business sector but, armed with algorithmic tools, professional statistician Nigel Marriott is akin to a modern-day fortune teller. He tells Penny Sukhraj what statistics can bring to business.
Diversity: rights, guidance and knowing where you stand
  • Article
  • 26 Feb 2020
  • ICAEW Insights
Today we talk in terms of diversity, but a decade ago the language was more around equality and discrimination. The passing of the Equality Act 2010 was the game changer that informs our understanding of diversity today, but the history of equality or anti-discrimination legislation is one of gradual change.
What two financial services bodies are doing to tackle inequality
  • Article
  • 26 Feb 2020
  • ICAEW Insights
What are the main causes of inequality and what are firms doing to tackle it? Brian Cantwell writes.
Women in public finance South Africa
  • Article
  • 31 Jul 2019
  • Margott Terblanche
Margott Terblanche delves into the socio-economic problems of women in South Africa, with a focus on female representation in the public sector.
Breaking barriers for women leaders in public finance
  • Article
  • 29 Jul 2019
  • Gillian Fawcett
Today we have reached a turning point where it is unacceptable to allow gender inequalities that prevent women from aspiring to senior leadership positions to persist.
Exclusive One year into gender pay gap reporting
  • Article
  • 04 Jul 2019
  • Jane Berney
  • Corporate Governance Community Newsletter
The Gender Pay Gap Reporting Regulations came into force in April 2017 and so by now all organisations employing over 250 relevant employees have published (or should have) two annual reports. The reports consist of six metrics that quantify the difference in hourly pay and bonuses for men and women as well as the percentage of men and women in the highest and lowest earning quartiles of the workforce.
Gender pay gap reporting: the regulations
  • Helpsheets and support
  • 20 Dec 2018
  • Business Law
The Equality Act 2010 (Gender Pay Gap Information) Regulations came in to effect on 6 April 2017. Find out who has to report on the gender pay gap and how to report on it.
Environment
How accountancy profession is shaping global development goals
  • Article
  • 08 Feb 2017
  • Peter Wilson
Twelve months into a 15-year plan to change the world, how is the accountancy profession shaping the Sustainable Development Goals? Peter Wilson investigates and finds that the goals might also reshape the profession.
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