Highly Discriminating:Why the City Isn’t Fair and Diversity Doesn’t Work

by: Louise Ashley (Author)

Publisher: Bristol University Press

Publication Date: 2 Sept. 2022

Language: English

Print Length: 310 pages

ISBN-10: 1529209641

ISBN-13: 9781529209648

Book Description

Why does the City of London, despite an apparent commitment to recruitment and progression based on objective merit within its hiring practices, continue to reproduce the status quo? Written by a leading expert on diversity and elite professions, this book examines issues of equality in the City, what its practitioners say in public and what they think behind closed doors. Drawing on research, interviews, practitioner literature and inteal reports, it argues that hiring practices in the City are highly discriminating in favour of a narrow pool of affluent applicants, and future progress may only be achieved by the state taking a greater role in organizational life. It calls for a policy shift at both the organizational and govemental level to address the implications of widening inequality in the UK.