Women and Equalities Committee
25 March 2026
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Women and Equalities Committee House of Commons
00:04 - 00:56
Speaker 1
Order. Order. Good afternoon, and welcome to the Women and Quality Select Committee. Today, we're holding an oral evidence session on the effectiveness of equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives. And today we will have a panel of five in front of us.
We have Alex Edmunds, professor of finance at London Business School. Welcome. Ian Mansfield, director of research and head of education and science at Policy Exchange. Have doctor Louise Ashley, reader and associate professor at Queen Mary University London. Have Doctor Zoe Young, Founder and Director at Half the Sky.
Have Peter Cheese, Chief Executive at Chartered Institute of Personal and Professional Development. Thank you and welcome to you all. And I am gonna hand straight over to David.
00:56 - 01:19
Speaker 2
Thank you very much and thank you all for being here today. As we're pressed for time, I'm going to direct questions at individuals and if you do have a different opinion to that individual, then I'll bring you in. So let's try and get it through as quickly as we can. So gonna start with you, Zoe, if I can. So attitudes to equality, diversity, and inclusion initiatives have changed in recent years.
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