Equality and diversity Issues being raised in the boardroom

By Alison Maitland

At the top echelons of business, equality and diversity are attracting growing attention. Long treated as the preserve of human resources departments and special interest groups, they are now being aired in boardrooms.

“I’m getting FTSE 100 chairmen and chief executives ringing up and saying: ‘What is this diversity thing all about? Come and tell our board what we are supposed to be doing’,” says Sue Ashtiany, head of the employment group at Nabarro Nathanson, the law firm.

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