This note provides an overview of the situation of LGBTI people globally and why addressing discrimination against them and promoting their inclusion make economic sense as well as being the right thing to do. You can’t have one without the other and together they can create some real strengths in any organisation. There’s no doubt that platforming these acts on Netflix is a valuable response to the Chappelle episode.

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This thematic note provides a summary of existing evidence in applying a social norms lens to development policy, including guidance on defining, measuring, and changing social norms, with specific guidance for WBG task teams and recommendations for policymakers. At LBG, we are seeking to tackle the underlying root causes that affect all elements of diversity, not just for specific groups. When one company discovered, through an audit of its recruiting processes, that recruiters were more critical of female than male candidates, it devised a training course for the critics. Better gender balance in business leadership is inextricably linked with achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The language of gender and development fails to resonate with most people’s lived experience of the varied relationships between and among women and men in different cultural contexts.Transgender people have received substantial attention in recent years, with gender identity being a focal point of online debate.

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The conference was organised in collaboration with Mermaids UK and Proud Trust and was hosted by TV presenters Dr Carrie Grant, MBE and David Grant MBE. As will be demonstrated in this chapter, it is common for individuals to claim that their “sex-based” rights are diminishing in light of “gender-based” rights.Quotes “We had no idea when we first started talking about what mattered to us, that we would end up making these amazing things – and things that opened people’s minds on what sexual harassment can really feel like.

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The Strategy is being shaped by extensive and inclusive engagementwith public and private sector clients, development partners, civil society and other key stakeholders, and will be formally launched in 2024. We must ensure we are promoting wider diversity including how we think, cultural differences and ethnicity. The failure of many churches to welcome, accept and include LGBTQ+ people creates stigma, loneliness, fear and denial, causing lasting damage to their wellbeing and mental health.It is not a full Gender Identity Clinic (GIC) but an additional link in the chain of referral between GPs and GICs, it may add a stage to your referral, but it can also help support and chase along later procedures. In particular, we would emphasize the need for women’s leadership-development programs to focus on personal mastery of thoughts, feelings, and actions and thus to make women accountable for their own future. If we are to close the gaps for women, BAME colleagues and other minorities, it is vital that organisations put fairness and equality at the front and centre of hiring, decision-making, talent and development. Across geographies, we find that a wholly committed senior leadership, active talent management, and more effective efforts to shift mind-sets and change behavior can transform the gender agenda (see sidebar, “W.

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Property rights play a critical role in determining who can own and access this fundamental resource. I feel we’re at a tipping point and that there’s a lot of energy and peer pressure building up to make further progress. The note highlights opportunities to advance SOGI inclusion through the three strategic objectives of the World Bank’s Gender Strategy update, namely ending gender-based violence and elevating human capital, expanding and enabling economic opportunities, and engaging women as leaders. These examples demonstrate that the public and private sectors have significant roles to play in ensuring digital technology reaches women, aligns with their needs, and strengthens their economic empowerment.

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