Firms are Aiming to Retain Female Staff
A PwC report that was released last week warned that women’s progress in the workplace in terms of achieving gender equality was expected to fall back to 2017 levels due to the pandemic. It warned that in order to undo the pandemic’s damage to women’s position in the workplace by 2030, progress needed to be twice as fast when compared to the previous decade. As a recent Bank of America report has asserted that reaching full gender equality could add up to 28 trillion to the global gross domestic product, firms are renewing their interest in diversity.
See "Firms are Aiming to Retain Female Staff", Vicky McKeever, CNBC News, March 8, 2021