The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025 Launch

This is an online event.

Audience

This event is open to members and non-members of Business in the Community (BITC). It has been designed to be of most benefit to those working in Corporate / External affairs, CSR/Responsible business/ ESG, Diversity and Inclusion and HR/People/Talent management.

About the event

In a world where progress towards greater gender equality remains fragile, and in some spaces, risks rolling back, join this session to explore:

•  New research highlighting the ‘commercial case’ for gender equity at work – including how this applies to the working world of the future, particularly challenges such as climate change and equitable technological innovation.

•  How you can reap the benefits of greater gender equity by benchmarking and enhancing your approach through applying to the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality.

Panellists will include senior staff from previous Times Top 50 award winners such as:

• Kelly Beaver OBE, Chief Executive of Ipsos Mori in the UK and Ireland, one of the UK’s largest research agencies.

• Sharmaine Lovegrove, MD of Dialogue Books, an imprint of Hachette UK, former literary editor at Elle.

Gender inequality remains one of the most devastating types of inequality in the UK, and for women and girls from poorer communities or Black, Asian, Mixed Race or other ethnically diverse backgrounds – things are only getting worse.

However, beyond the moral and social case, the data is clear that greater gender diversity and equity has a large, positive impact on businesses’ commercial performance, both directly through increasing revenues and reducing costs, and indirectly through enabling greater resilience to major commercial risks and opportunities, including climate change and artificial intelligence (AI)

This panel discussion will consider how to utilise this new research to drive progress and reflect on how applying to the Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality – the UK’s largest, longest established assessment of employers’ efforts on this agenda – can support businesses to improve their practice.

Background

The Times Top 50 Employers is the UK’s most high-profile and well-established listing of employers taking action to create workplaces where everyone, regardless of gender, can thrive.

Women and minoritised genders are disproportionately affected in times of more significant political and economic uncertainty, as gender inequalities deeply entrenched in working life have a greater impact. At a time when the UK continues to experience a cost of living crisis, women are paid less, are more likely to be employed in severely insecure work and have less access to highly paid, highly skilled roles due to the need of more women having to balance work and caring responsibilities. As such, the need for employer intervention to ensure greater gender equality and avoid a backslide in progress has never been greater.

Booking and contact details and further information

• Contact Jessica Hart, Events Co-ordinator, BITC.
• Full joining instructions will be sent before the event.

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