CHAPTER 6
WHY ORGANISATIONS TEND TO START WITH GENDER DIVERSITY
In this chapter we discuss why organisations have tended to start with gender diversity and putting support structures in place to achieve gender diversity goals.
Mainly it is because they can count the numbers of men and women, and organisations are data driven. This is not good enough – every aspect of diversity needs to be invested in, and organisations also need to invest in inclusion.
When we can see people for who they are, learn and better understand difference, we can begin to move the discussion on to seeing the intersectionality in people rather than seeing each other as if they belong to just one diversity group. Amy Bell (2018), in a special report for the Financial ...
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