D&I Weekly News Round Up: Gender, LGBTQ+ and more

Gender
LeanIn.Org and McKinsey just released the latest Women in the Workplace report, surveying 65,000 employees from over 400 organizations. While there have been some positive developments regarding women’s representation – the pandemic is taking its toll, and more women are now considering scaling back their careers and are experiencing burnouts.
Gender Equality
Interesting HBR article about one of the reasons for the gender pay gap in the US: high-salary jobs often come with long and inflexible hours, which makes career progression more difficult for anyone with caregiving responsibilities outside their job.
Inclusion
Representation matters – and while around 15% of the world’s population live with disabilities, the fashion industry (and media) have not been very inclusive in the past. This is slowly changing (also thanks to customers’ expectations), and more and more brands are now including models with disabilities in their campaigns. Read more here.
LGBTQ+
As one of the last countries in Western Europe, Switzerland will now allow same-sex marriage. Under Switzerland’s system of direct democracy, almost 65% of the people voted “yes” to legalize civil marriage for same-sex couples.
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