This year’s 200 respondents represent our most numerous and diverse set to date with respondents from South America, North America, all across Europe and Africa, and representation across Asia Pacific. We are also delighted to see our male perspective respondents numbers have also increased significantly (22%) which offers us a far broader view in 2024 of experiences of equity/inequity in finance and treasury.
Understanding and awareness of the complexity and broad range of issues around equity has grown and expanded over the last year in particular, for both us and for the community. For this reason there are a number of new questions in our 2024 Global Equity Study which give us new data sets and new insights into how to make workplaces more equitable and inclusive.
The first comes from deepening our understanding of the metrics being used within respondents organisations to quantify progress and recognise issues and problems. We have asked new questions around transparency within organisations, variations in inclusivity across different finance functions and asked more for evidence and available data within organisations reporting.
The second comes from deepening our understanding of the array of issues affecting peoples’ experiences of either exclusion or inclusion. To that end we have asked new questions around provisions for differently abled people within respondents’ organisations. We also explore neurodivergence and what provisioning is available for neurodivergent employees. We delve deeper into experiences of ageism and how the menopause both impacts women who experience it and how it is being addressed by respondents’ corporations. This as well as new insights around cultural and linguistic discrimination are all more deeply explored in 2024.
We are so grateful to all this year’s respondents for their candour and open approach, without your insights and your experiences we cannot assess and isolate the issues impacting organisations and individuals in treasury and finance when it comes to equity and inclusion.
