The following are a selection of news and thought leadership articles created for our Members and shared here for all:
Mark.Freed / 03 Oct 2023
I was suffering from a cold and a bad knee at the weekend. Which meant I had time to fulfil a promise I had made a very good friend to read, feminist author and columnist, Caitlin Moran’s book, What About Men? Lots of great takeaways and ideas in...
Read morekatie.robertson / 29 Sep 2023
As we approach International Men’s Day – 19th November 2023 – Gary Ford and Mark Freed are getting ready for a busy time of the year with many speaker engagements already in the diary. MFI is often asked why businesses should support International...
Read morekatie.robertson / 05 Sep 2023
Gary Ford - Co-Founder Men for Inclusion How people from different ethnic backgrounds have different experiences in the workplace The responses from people who described their ethnicity in terms that typically align to a group that has been traditionally underrepresented at work suggested that their workplace experiences are worse...
Read morekatie.robertson / 24 Aug 2023
Gary Ford, Co-Founder Men for Inclusion Men for Inclusion Lived Experience Survey - Gender Differences How women’s experiences are different to men and what we might interpret from that Given that previous research has shown clear differences between the experiences of men and women in the workplace,...
Read moreMark.Freed / 16 Aug 2023
"Are We Nearly There Yet?" - A Journey Towards Gender Diversity and Inclusion Remember those classic car rides where a child's eager voice would chime, "Are we nearly there yet?" as we embarked on a family adventure? Just as that innocent curiosity captured the...
Read morekatie.robertson / 15 Aug 2023
Gary Ford, Co-Founder Men for Inclusion The key headlines from what the survey told us In our second blog about our Lived Experience Survey we would like share an executive summary of the key findings. As a reminder, you can download the research survey results here. 1. There is more...
Read morekatie.robertson / 09 Aug 2023
Gary Ford, Co-Founder Men for Inclusion Why we felt an Inclusion survey was necessary and what it was trying to achieve In March this year, Men for Inclusion published the results of its first annual (hopefully) Lived Experience Survey. Over the course of the next few weeks, we would...
Read moreMark.Freed / 18 Jun 2023
It is often quoted that diversity is being invited to the party, inclusion is being asked to dance and equality is being able to dance as though no one was looking. Well let me tell you my wife was invited to that party and attended. The only refreshments were...
Read moreMark.Freed / 13 Jun 2023
As a boy my father, uncles and male role models all asked me the question. The question all boy’s get asked. What football team do you support? As a father, an uncle, an adult male I asked the same question of my sons, my nephews, the sons...
Read moreMark.Freed / 05 Jun 2023
Amazing energy in the room yesterday at Men for Inclusion’s first cross-company event hosted by Standard Chartered Bank Chartered. We invited clients to join us in creating a cross-industry, cross firm forum to learn from good practice in building inclusive cultures. We started to...
Read moreMark.Freed / 30 Mar 2023
It has happened every year for the last 5 years. The spring flowers are in full bloom...I am looking forward to summer, optimism and renewal fills the air. Then I’m brought back to earth with an almighty thud as firms publish their gender pay gap...
Read moreMark.Freed / 22 Feb 2023
I love what I do at E2W and Men for Inclusion. One week apart, two very different audiences, same message – inclusion is a win win. Last week I sat on an amazing panel hosted by Aviva and Amanda Blanc for the...
Read moreMark.Freed / 06 Feb 2023
Study after study has shown how a more inclusive workplace benefits everyone - Many men are now realising that, far from being a threat, inclusion and inclusive organisations actually benefit them personally as well. Along with happier, more successful workplaces, inclusion creates better health and wellbeing outcomes. ...
Read moreMark.Freed / 20 Dec 2022
Thanks Diana Parkes for your contribution to our blog, we are excited to be collaborating with you, please read below Diana's comments below about her book and the discount we are offering our community. ‘Don’t give me a problem, give me a solution’. That&rsquo...
Read moreKatie.Dix / 19 Dec 2022
Thank you to all our members, clients and community for another fantastic year. As a community we have continued to work together and support one another whilst growing and diversifying our business. We have successfully hosted a huge amount of virtual and in person events including: Twenty...
Read moreTina.Freed / 17 Nov 2022
Spoiler Alert: Men for Inclusion in partnership with E2W, Women on the Wharf and the Diversity Project are collecting data on the lived experiences of working people. The full results will be launched on International Women’s Day in March 2023. To coincide with International Men&rsquo...
Read moreMark.Freed / 13 Oct 2022
Updating the ground breaking Cambridge University research that our co-founder led into men and women collaborating with each other in the workplace we at E2W and Men for Inclusion in partnership with Women on the Wharf and The Diversity Project are undertaking a refresh and update of...
Read moreKatie.Dix / 25 Jul 2022
Please enjoy a short round up of our hugely successful event hosted by Sky Sports last Wednesday, “They think it’s all over” - How gender equality in the workplace still needs everyone’s effort Men for Inclusion are bringing together men who already...
Read moreMark.Freed / 20 Jul 2022
England are playing Spain in the quarter finals of the Euro’s. I wish them all the best and will be supporting them all the way. You can do this! 'They think it’s all over' is one of the most famous sporting commentaries sayings. In 1966...
Read moreMark.Freed / 01 Jul 2022
Men for Inclusion Founder Gary Ford contributes to the disucssion on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Foundation Industries The Foundation Industries face challenges in delivering sustainable practices that meet UK Government Net-Zero targets. Without significant investment to transform the workplace and embed equality, diversity and inclusion, these industries...
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