In careers... look at the boards of most UK companies, the heads of banks, the partners of law firms, the people running our public museums and galleries, diversity in MPs and the Lords.
Any lack of BAME and women is either saying...
A) we do not actively recruit a diverse pool of candidates
B) we have poor supervision, lacking and often suppressing talent
C) we believe BAME groups and women are somehow less intelligent and/ or less hardworking - the system works but these groups don’t.
That’s what the lack of representation says to me. Makes me sick and it needs to be spoken about. I could not in good faith recommend a lot of careers in larger organisations to kids, having seen how friends have been treated and ultimately (in “nice” ways and not) thrown out of them.
Kids, if you want to know who you’ll truly progress with and who will invest in you, look at who is in the structure.