Diversity & Inclusion

Is finance making the grade when it comes to workforce diversity?

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Is finance making the grade when it comes to workforce diversity? – well in the case of people with disabilities at least, not really: During 2017 approximately 10% of people working in finance positions were classed as disabled (i.e. according to definitions set out within the 2010 Equality Act) – compared with 12% amongst the workforce as a whole. Moreover this ‘lag’ of 2 percentage points is apparent when looking… Read More »Is finance making the grade when it comes to workforce diversity?

Gender initiatives and tech study – are they working?

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I am not going to make a call on that one but whilst the latest applications data from UCAS (released today) show some improvement over the past five years in the proportion of applicants (UK domiciled) for Computer Science courses that were female, the gender balance is still below the peak (from data available) experienced in 2010. Moreover, the chart below is just to illustrate the relative change (i.e. indexed)… Read More »Gender initiatives and tech study – are they working?

Correlation versus causation

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Correlation versus causation – I run into this issue most days when analysing stats but I quite liked this one as it is a good example – when comparing the levels of pay amongst individuals working within the engineering industries it appears that if women are seeking equal pay within one of the associated sub-sectors (set out by Engineering UK) , the next best thing to changing gender is actually… Read More »Correlation versus causation

Women in Engineering

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Sunday was international Women in Engineering day which inspired me to have a quick look at the state of the gender balance in related occupations over the 2014-18 period. The results – terrible – for each of the main engineering professions less than one sixth of workers were women, and overall, women accounted for only one in ten engineering professionals on average (10%) over the period – i.e. 43,000 all… Read More »Women in Engineering

Women in IT setting the record straight –

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Having been informed on more than one occasion of late that the issue of low representation for women amongst the IT professions is something somehow new/flying in the face of historical trends, over the past few days I have looked in to this to see if it is in fact true. The result, sadly I have to say, is that it is not – evidence for the halcyon days of… Read More »Women in IT setting the record straight –

The BREXIT braindrain – more of a trickle really so far.

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Looking at government data showing the level of educational attainment for EU nationals working in the UK during the past year or so, it appears to be true that there has been a slight fall in the proportion with HE level qualifications (i.e. predominantly those with degrees) – down from 49% in Q1.16 to 46% in Q4.17 – but, there was also a slight rise in the proportion holding ‘other… Read More »The BREXIT braindrain – more of a trickle really so far.

Decline in the number of EU nationals working in Finance/Insurance industries post BREXIT.

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Overall, the proportion of EU nationals working in these sectors fell from 6% to 5% over the Q2.16-Q4.17 period, whilst the decline was even more pronounced in many of the industry sub-sectors – notably Security and commodity contracts brokerage services, where a fall of 7 percentage points was apparent (i.e.  down from 17% to 10% over the period).

Diversity in the labour market?

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Diversity in the labour market? – we hear a lot about IT and Engineering (well I do as I look at this for a living) but consider also – women are better drivers than men (or not, I have no idea really but assume so as the insurance premiums are lower) – so why is it that, of the 1.1m people in the UK that had a ‘driving job’ in… Read More »Diversity in the labour market?

The Labour market is just not working

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The Labour market is just not working – ever struggled to get a plumber – they charge the earth and you always have to wait weeks as there are never enough to go round – so why are there seemingly virtually no women working as ‘Plumbers and heating and ventilating engineers’ in the UK (just 1% of the total in 2017 from our analysis of ONS data from the Labour… Read More »The Labour market is just not working