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Why business needs to mind about the gender gap

Jane Portas Co-founder, Insuring Women's Futures

Jane Portas, Co-founder of Insuring Women's futures on how data can help employers to build back fairer in a guest article for International Women's Day.

08 Mar 2021, 5 min read

As we celebrate International Women’s Day, schools in the UK re-open, and for parents and carers across the country, there is hope of being able to return to a new work-life normal.

Over the last year, COVID-19 has highlighted many inequalities: for young people, ethnic minorities, key workers and older people, and for women in particular. PwC’s recent Women in Work Index 2021 highlighted the risk of the pandemic reversing the gains in women’s economic empowerment of the last decade.

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