City Hindu Network looks to reveal different views on glass ceiling
25 February 2013
Not-for-profit organisation the City Hindus Network (CHN) is looking to explore how perceptions of the glass ceiling differ among, and have an effect upon, professionals from ethnic minorities, a recruiter leading research into the matter tells Recruiter.
Mon, 25 Feb 2013Not-for-profit organisation the City Hindus Network (CHN) is looking to explore how perceptions of the glass ceiling differ among, and have an effect upon, professionals from ethnic minorities, a recruiter leading research into the matter tells Recruiter.
Dimpi Dattani, CHN executive committee member and an in-house recruitment specialist currently working in the public sector, tells Recruiter: “The glass ceilings [discussions] have always been around gender, so there’s a lot of talk about that, but there’s not a lot of talk about ethnic groups.”
CHN counts nearly 2,000 Asian professionals from across the UK as members.
Dattani and the CHN have launched an 18-question online survey, which is open for responses to professionals of all ethnicities until early April – with results to be presented at the House of Commons at an event hosted by Alok Sharma, the Conservative MP for Reading West.
The research, she says, is about recognising different perceptions, “understanding the glass ceiling concept and how it is viewed, because it is viewed as a different thing by everyone, how different ethnic minorities will perceive it and how it can be tackled”.
Sharma recently proposed that companies in the UK release data on ethnic minorities among their staff and those applying to work there – a similar proposal to one formally made in October by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills around data relating to gender among staff.
Dimpi Dattani, CHN executive committee member and an in-house recruitment specialist currently working in the public sector, tells Recruiter: “The glass ceilings [discussions] have always been around gender, so there’s a lot of talk about that, but there’s not a lot of talk about ethnic groups.”
CHN counts nearly 2,000 Asian professionals from across the UK as members.
Dattani and the CHN have launched an 18-question online survey, which is open for responses to professionals of all ethnicities until early April – with results to be presented at the House of Commons at an event hosted by Alok Sharma, the Conservative MP for Reading West.
The research, she says, is about recognising different perceptions, “understanding the glass ceiling concept and how it is viewed, because it is viewed as a different thing by everyone, how different ethnic minorities will perceive it and how it can be tackled”.
Sharma recently proposed that companies in the UK release data on ethnic minorities among their staff and those applying to work there – a similar proposal to one formally made in October by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills around data relating to gender among staff.
