There has been a considerable amount of backlash in response to Nick Clegg’s recent invite to employers to join the Government’s Youth Contract Scheme.

Compulsory quotas for women in the boardroom are a key way forward, according to a poll of women’s business networks, carried out by leadership consultancy, White Water Group.

With International Woman’s Day on 8 March 2012, and the EU committed to improving the number of women on executive boards, Mercer has revealed the ratio of senior executives and managers that were...

Professional services firm PwC has received almost 400 applications for its female partner shadowing scheme whereby undergraduates join the firm for a week this summer.

Almost half of UK workers think that employers’ diversity programmes are “only designed to attract good PR”, according to research published this morning from Adecco Group’s Unlocking Britain’s...

Chickenshed the theatre company is working with 70 senior managers who work for Hilton Hotels in the United States and who are in the UK for a conference.

There has been much discussion from commentators, notably Harriet Harman, about the idea that had Lehman Brothers included women at the very top, the recent financial crisis may not have happened.

Prospects, The National Autistic Society’s (NAS) recruitment service is piloting a 28-week into work course for adults with autism called Preparation for Employment (PfE).

Business in the Community (BITC) and Mitie have joined forces to urge business to work only with suppliers with diversity and equality policies.

Ernst & Young has topped the list of Stonewall’s Top 100 Employers 2012 for lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) staff

EDF Energy has held a black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) networking day in London, to share views related to diversity in the workplace.

Disabled people are to benefit from further changes to the Work Capability Assessment (WCA) following an independent review of the assessment which looks at someone’s fitness for work.