The Moral Case for Change

To attain the same number of interviews as someone with an Anglo-Saxon sounding name, candidates from Indigenous, Middle Eastern and Asian sounding names have to submit a ridiculous amount of more applications. Only a tiny percentage of ASX directors are culturally diverse women. At a CEO level it is even worse. There's never been a more important time for us to be conscious of our unconscious biases and societal privileges. We're living in an era where divisive politics has successfully otherwise diverse minority groups and normalised xenophobia against them. And what's worse is some of these remarks are made by our elected officials. I believe that when you excuse bigotry in words, you lay the framework to give bigotry in action