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On this week’s From The Courtroom to the Boardroom, Dr Louise Ashley, Associate Professor and IHSS Fellow at the School of Business and Management, and the Author of Highly Discriminating: Why the City Isn’t Fair and Diversity Doesn’t Work - talks to Simon Gibson about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Law Firms. They discuss Louise's impressive career journey to become one of the UK’s specialists in researching the implementation and development of Diversity and Inclusion. She gives an insightful view on social class, manufactured corporate equality, issues surrounding networking, equality of outcome vs equality of opportunity and there’s even a debate about identity politics and feminism. FOLLOW DR LOUISE ASHLEY ►Twitter - https://twitter.com/drlouiseashley FOLLOW SIMON GIBSON ►Website - https://simon-gibson.com/Linked In - https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-gibson-31b83643Twitter - https://twitter.com/Simon_Gibson_Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/simon_gibson_ceo/CHAPTERS ►0:00 | Introduction 4:24 | Louise’s career journey6:07 | Social class9:45 | Louise’s findings on diversity & equality14:14 | Manufactured corporate equality22:49 | Ad read24:15 | How do we measure talent?27:15 | Issues surrounding networking31:30 | Equality of outcome vs equality of opportunity37:10 | Allison Bailey case41:13 | Legitimacy & reputation in business42:35 | Identity politics, feminism & debate47:11 | What is fairness?49:57 | What really makes diversity work?57:22 | Political alternatives01:00:03 | “Some people are poor, because some people are rich”01:00:42 | Highly Discriminating: Why the City Isn’t Fair and Diversity Doesn’t Work