Brad Smith, vice chair and president of Microsoft Corporation: “All of us who are in business will need to decide, what is the mission of our company? How do we fulfill our broader commitments? How do we synthesize these different needs? And how do we do it in a way that makes sustainable tangible progress?”
For the past year, ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) has become the key topic of discussion for corporations, their boards, investors, and stakeholders. While the
Despite equality in workplace work-family policies — cultures at many legal employers and within society at large still reinforce imbalanced gender roles in caregiving and
Dentons is a signatory to the EQUAL in LEGAL statement and as world’s largest law firm they want to promote an inclusive, forward-thinking, and innovative
Few professions are currently in a better place to change the world when it comes to the pursuit of equality than the legal profession.
Contribution by Randstad Global Legal
After exploring the theory around D&I for some time, the in-house legal team at Randstad Global wanted to go beyond the policy on paper. They felt it was time to put D&I in practice. Randstad Global Legal offered Hamza Enes Kaya, a Turkish lawyer and political refugee in the Netherlands, an internship within their department.
One of the reasons that women have not advanced in equal pay, parental leave, and equitable hiring and promotion is because women have lacked male allies in the workplace. Male allyship is critical in the evolution of gender equality programs in the workplace. A new research report on allyship by future legal leaders was recently released.
Trailblazer Connie Brenton, a serial community builder in the legal ecosystem with a passion for D&I, is featured in our EQUAL in LEGAL’s trailblazers series.
According to the American Bar Association, only two professions, the natural sciences, and dentistry have less diversity than law; medicine, accounting, academia, and others do considerably better.
The Business- and Human Rights resource center provides resources and support and works with advocates in civil society, business and government to address inequalities of
