Your Shape Talent July Newsletter

This past month, Shape Talent has been honoured by two accolades. CEO and Founder, Sharon Peake, CPsychol was named on Management Today’s Women in Leadership Power List while our business was shortlisted for the British Small Business Awards. Both have been a rewarding recognition of the important work we are doing to accelerate gender equity. 

In our latest blog, we look at how certain biases and stigma have become attached to flexible work practices. With current return-to-office mandates in place, many flexible work practices, particularly remote work, have been criticised and there is an ever-widening gap that disadvantages those who require flexibility in order to manage their home and work responsibilities. These biases often disproportionately impact women, who are more likely to take responsibility for household activities, particularly related to childcare. 

The blog draws on the evidence from our brand new Flexible Work research in which we uncover the myths around flexible work, as well as its benefits to organisations. 

We recently interviewed Dr. Andrée Bates , Chairman/Founder/CEO at Eularis, discussing how AI is impacting the trajectory of gender equity. This was a fascinating discussion that covered not only the risks, but also the opportunities of AI for gender equity. You can view the full recording here. And if you’d like to listen to it and our other previous episodes in podcast format, you can listen to Breaking Barriers here. 

This month at our LinkedIn Live, we will be talking to Psychologist Jenn Barnett , who is Head of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion and ESG at Grant Thornton, UK. Jenn brings her experience in driving the organisation's EDI initiatives to offer insights on how to best build a culture that attracts and retains quality women candidates. We’ll be live on LinkedIn on Thursday 25th July at 2pm GMT. Join us for this important discussion. Register today. I hope to see you there! 

If you missed our recent webinar unveiling the research on Flexible working: A deep dive into the impact of remote working on gender equity, we have a recording of the event. The white paper is now available for download. It was a great discussion with Professor Heejung Chung Chung of King's College London's Business School and the Global Institute for Women's Leadership and Steve Collinson , Zurich UK CHRO.  

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