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It's not that bit you need to check, it's the 'how' behind it.

'Inclusive' is also incredibly easy to abuse.




> 'Inclusive' is also incredibly easy to abuse.

How? Seems to me that, like with corporate accountability, you're either doing it and it's good or you're not doing it but lying and saying you are.


Where are the boundaries of 'inclusive' ?


Inclusive of who into what?

Comcast has an all-women Open Source Program Office, which sounds like a way to include females in engineering. But they define women as "females and males who want to be seen as female" which doesn't help women actually get jobs.

The Scottish National Party has sex-quotas to achieve more-equal representation by men and women, but they let men who claim to be women take these seats.

Are either actually inclusive? Are they inclusive of women? If you have a daughter, do either of those measures better her life.

And yet both actions meet the 'Social' criteria of ESG scores, and serve to boost a company's rankings and thus lower its interest rate on sustainability linked loans.


Nothing about 'affirmative action' is inclusive. People just see it as positive 'because minority.' It can not lead to a positive outcome longer term (even now, where all-female teams are now seen as a positive but all-male teams are a negative, regardless of context).

What should happen is across the board equality of opportunity. While making sure the opportunity is truly fair, focus on stamping out prejudice and 'isms. You can't force immediate changes, but you can remove the barriers to equality to let the changes happen.




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