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Keep up to dateBy Richard Threlfall2019-04-02T05:00:00
Disappointing diversity statistics should not make us sigh and shrug – recognising that it simply isn’t good enough should spur us all to take effective action
I’m writing this before seeing the results of Building’s latest survey into diversity in the construction industry. But I think it’s a safe bet that it is not going to surprise me, or you, with evidence of stupendous progress that’s been made in driving diversity in our industry. And that itself is telling, and depressing, isn’t it? We all care deeply about improving diversity in this industry, so we say, but we’ve got used to an apparent reality that whatever we say, the stats don’t seem to move. So we can predict the outcome of this survey before we see it. Are we really trying hard enough?
We are just not taking the lack of diversity in our industry sufficiently seriously. If we were, we would have made more progress than we have
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