Announcing our new membership offering!

At Encompass Equality, we are committed to helping as many businesses as we can retain and progress their female talent, regardless of their size, budgets and whether or not they have a team of dedicated inclusion professionals. In order to better meet the very differing needs of our clients both current and future, we are delighted to announce our new membership offering!

Our membership helps HR and inclusion professionals to make a positive impact on female retention and progression.

Through access to a collaborative community, clear guidance on strategies and practical, expert-driven solutions, we equip you with the tools and deep knowledge to ensure women thrive and stay within your organisation, while recognising the importance of intersectionality.

Becoming a member of Encompass Equality will help you to:

• Understand how to retain talented women, saving time and money
• Reach your gender equality goals faster through access to the latest industry-leading research and data
• Develop line managers so they understand the unique barriers and challenges that women from diverse backgrounds face
• Stay ahead of the curve, learning from experts and peers
• Engage employees as allies
• Achieve all of this with the support of an experienced and friendly team of consultants

We offer three tiers of membership to cater for every budget: Core, Cascade and Custom. Whatever your needs, membership gives you easy and affordable access to an unrivalled suite of resources, expertise, support and community, helping you to make real and lasting change in your organisation.

Discover Encompass Equality Membership Free Webinar

To find out more, we're inviting you to join us for a free webinar, 12.30pm - 1.15pm on Tuesday 8th October 2024 with our Head of Programmes, Helen Beedham . Together we'll discuss the current challenges you are facing in terms of female retention, share more about our membership offering and answer your questions. Please?register here to book your place. And if you can’t wait until then, or want to guarantee your place in the Founding 40, do reply to this email and we can arrange a Zoom!?

Insights

• Read our latest blog post on How the New Labour Government Could Impact Female Retention
• Our research was mentioned in The Times: I Gave Up My Job at Nearly 40: Why Women My Age Are Quitting
• Our Senior Coach, Resilience and Wellbeing Specialist, Katie Seaman was interviewed by Authority Magazine. Read the full article: Becoming Stress Proof: How to Reduce of Eliminate Stress From Your Work
• Listen to the latest episode of our podcast The Equality Conversation on Engaging Men in Gender Equality with Jamie Rust, Founder at Leathwaite

Three Things to Know

1.??Retail giant Next faces ￡30m bill after landmark equal pay tribunal...

...after over 3,500 employees won a six year legal battle, as reported in The Guardian newspaper . The tribunal heard that retail employees, who are overwhelmingly female, were paid lower hourly wages than warehouse employees who are overwhelmingly male.

2.??Women remain under-represented at every stage of the corporate pipeline...

... according to the McKinsey Women in the Workplace: 2024 report. While progress has been made in recent years it declares "progress is not parity."

3.??Researchers have found that the happiest countries have the highest gender equality...

... according to the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network which produces the World Happiness Report. The top happiest countries also feature in the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report as having greater gender equality.

We hope you’ve found the content of Encompass Insights useful and thought provoking. If you have any comments, feedback or suggestions of topics you’d like to see featured in our monthly newsletter, please do get in touch. Don’t forget to keep up to date with Encompass Equality news by following us on LinkedIn.

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Joy and The Encompass Equality Team