highest levels of government. why did journalist. have to die. was threatened brings more. years later and the reasons are still unclear. the case. starts september 30th on w. we're all different even though at the same time we're all basically the same with fashion from a myriad of factors like age ancestry genda gymnastic ability nature and nurture

and so is the world's work force so just how do companies manage to deal with human diversity if it's to improve on that front a reality well mainly lip service that's our topic today on made data we use business magazine whoever and however you off welcome to the program. companies should be adapting to the realities of an open and diverse society however ensuring tolerance and respect for others in the workplace is perhaps easier said than done firms usually have to adopt a range of strategies to address the issue hirohito when you were an extremely diverse bunch with people from 60 countries working together and over 30 languages and the differences with celebrating go beyond just where we came from as my colleague how the a lush has been finding out. women and men young and old people of various ethnic backgrounds with different religions and worldviews different sexual orientations with and without disabilities the don't

develop team in berlin is a colorful mix. wanted to know how does it work at other companies how big a variety is there and how do the bosses deal with it. on this t.v. commercial for germany's 2nd biggest mail order group is also making a statement about openness and tolerance. it's a vision of a corporate culture that excepts people for who they are. that may be every day life for workers at auto these days. but it wasn't always like that. even in germany in 2020 it's far from uncontroversial that we run ads featuring homosexuals and we get hateful comments online sometimes really disgusting hurtful remarks we just have to accept it and we make

a conscious decision to do that and i think it's important that we do accept it because sometimes showing this attitude can help you endure. could never work in a company where he has to keep his sexuality. a secret. he set up an l g b t q network where employees can exchange ideas and find support many people are afraid to come out according to a recent study every 3rd. person in germany experiences discrimination at work. let's say i'm not out and a colleague asks me about it then i only have 2 options i can lie or i can be forced to reveal my sexuality doesn't that is awful that's why it's so important for a company regardless of its diversity management policy to create a corporate culture that promotes openness and diversity for players.

we leave through all catalogues from the seventy's to the ninety's. a time when you couldn't order fashion online. almost all female and male models are white caucasians and. if you look here all of these models are one type of person they're basically all white women of the i don't know about you but when i look at it from today's perspective it's a distorted picture of the world. have. things look very different today any company trying to sell products to the general public has to take social diversity into account city should be a top priority. to whoever is the only woman on the board and she works part time. even being able to do that is not a given. where measured by whether we're making empty promises or if we stick

to it through our behavior and initiatives and show that we're authentic. that. it's often difficult for homosexuals or transsexual men or women to find work but more and more companies are hiring at special john fairest. sticks and stones in berlin. and stuart cameron was one of the fair organizers and he knows from personal experience what discrimination feels like the o.e.c.d. estimates that candidates chances drop by 50 percent in their papers. this discrimination is mostly very in direct for example you don't get invited to certain meetings or you don't get the promotion you're in line for you don't even get invited in the 1st place. it was the same with me when it came out that i was gay and it was really remarkable to see how colleagues suddenly started to become

more distant like carson he got scratched in the company parking lot. so it was very important for me to find out which companies out there really don't care who backed me if i have a problem who can i turn to and do i truly believe that this company believes in this is you have to do it. using his experience he started his own business and now advises companies on how they can better address diversity issues . such as having the right contact person. and that also includes instructing management events workshops and training. i would say the biggest challenge we face on this issue is time. of course i see how a lot has happened in the past 11 years and things have become more open but it takes time and it's happening too slow for me i wish that more companies but also

individuals out there would simply understand just how good and important it is and that there was more investment in this area because it's good for everyone. in germany as a.p. is considered a model company on matters of diversity there are workers from 118 countries at the software company's headquarters. different cultures and ways of thinking and styles of communication meatier. diversity needs to be managed or otherwise there could be problems. ahead of personnel was forced to flee afghanistan for germany as a 14 year old on his own. today he's responsible for over 20000 workers. from the company's point of view openness to diversity means locating the best

talent for the respective job in the respective team we have these talents everywhere they're not only white or german but could be indian male homosexuals except if you only look at the specific requirements of a job a diverse team automatically emerges. large companies can benefit from an open corporate culture mixed teams often achieve better results precisely because they have a harder time together. i think we have to do it because it's the right thing to do because the world has differences they do have to accept we've also noticed that teens are more innovative when they don't all come from the same pot metaphorically speaking. you know but he wasn't. but of course this also applies in recruitment if we're more open as employers and we are more attractive option right that's why it's not just an end in itself but

it's also a good fit and has quantifiable advantages for corporate success but even. allowing diversity in a company is a challenge which ultimately. we need to talk about money and that can sometimes seem crude but addressing diversity means addressing the yawning gaps in how different groups of people are paid for the same work were voted so many times here on g.w. about gender pay differences but the change that needs to happen simply hasn't it's time to get something done but 1st a few facts. why do women earn less. it's not a myth women's wages remain low while men's climb higher and higher. in germany she earns 21 percent less than a man and she has far less chance of obtaining

a company car but where does the difference come from let's look back a couple of decades. in the wake of the 2nd world war in germany there was a shortage of men and women had to take on hard work their fight for just wages was particularly loud women demanded equal pay and they were successful. then came the bitch the economic miracle the traditional gender roles returned with a vengeance. in west germany at least favorite could remain a housewife and stay home to take care of the kitchen the kids and her husband. both socially and legally men were seen as the only breadwinners this role division continued for decades and it continues to affect employment today. eva chose a typical women's job working in a human resources department. careers in i.t.

the natural sciences and high tech didn't interest her. the problem is typical women's work is paid less nurses and caregivers often earn less than a truck mechanic for example for in addition eva interrupted her career to raise a family and later worked only half days she'd never sit in the boss's chair. a vicious circle. as it stands now researchers say evil would have to work almost another 170 years before she finally earns as much as a man equal pay in germany wouldn't become a reality until the year 2187. will keep reporting on that issue but women work as a facing other disadvantages besides lower pay the coronavirus is seen something of a regression towards the gender roles of the past men have been the 1st to return

to offices while women have often been left juggling working from home with keeping the kids schools and entertained entrepreneur and mother in him to all things that's totally out of order she's been speaking to our reporter it also gives us a little insight into his state of retaining. i cook at home are in my own shirts and i work full time my unique and. definitely unique quite rare for many women could be a dream come true which is a good thing. if . working from home is good because it gives people a chance to take care of their children and their careers are there any downsides. they have a problem as the problem is that during the coronavirus pandemic women pay the price for the good of society women have followed their hearts and taken care of

their families and their children they want to do this as well but they also still have to do their paid work it said gender roles back a few decades. back to the fifty's. the coronavirus could encourage further discrimination against women. mine is all my concern is that if unemployment continues to rise due to the coronavirus women will get a broad deal by staying at home doing more part time work taking care of people more and paying an even higher price. my impression is that if a woman wants a career she caught up a child and she wants a child she has to for go the career how can we avoid this dilemma. in germany it is unfortunately often the case that women must choose and get trapped working part

time but order that means that i do a job part time that is normally full time and constantly get told that i can't have a career if i don't work full time plus i have to do 100 percent of the housework that i do if i didn't have a job so i'm constantly stressed so i think if a woman wants to have a career and chill. and my advice to her would be to work full time. because the likelihood of her finding a partnership model in which the man does a lot of housework in it is much higher than if the woman were to work part time. at hold and. need more men who contribute and share the workload definitely definitely we need men and businesses to contribute other relationship models are possible i've had one with my husband for 20 years i cannot emphasize this enough we both work full time we have 4 children and we don't have an au pair or in any we manage by alternating between working long days and short days 6 hours 10 hours 6

hours 10 hours and that works well. i can't bear to hear any more businesses say we have standards and just can't find a qualified woman i can't bear to hear it anymore because it's not true and we need to consider that women present themselves differently and their qualifications come across differently and we need to take a closer look at that. how by looking at people differently and not just at those who appear boastful story that's not true for all men and there's less to it than what it might sound like there are men who are very competent don't get me wrong but men also present themselves with their chests broad and proud and women tend to be more modest and hope to be discovered and dicta. but that doesn't usually work you know they can no it doesn't but it also doesn't work when women say i'll act like a man throughout my career i've heard again and again you act like

a man and you're too dominant can't you be more humble women have to realize that that can hold them back as well as i'm after who suffered at all. diversity also means people of different abilities working alongside each other however disability can make finding a job much harder for example just one in 4 blind people in germany is employed claudia l'arche our campaign visited him have been speaking to 3 women making a success of themselves in the world of work and one of them took writes to the outer reaches of his comfort zone. let me know when it starts to hurt can you still speak. and breathe. and i have retinitis pigmentosa it's a genetic disorder and causes tunnel vision my eyesight was quite good until i was 30 or 35 i could still ride my bike. given the normal fog of.

most of my patients don't even know when i tell them i'm legally blind they say they don't believe me. that was a quick. one can verify this if you can cover up a lot you become a champion in covering it up of course i have trained my coworkers to never put things in the wrong place. i get so mad if i have to spend hours hunting for something if i reach for it and it's not where it's meant to be and i have to start looking for it. my parents always supported me they never said you won't be able to do that. but when it's very noisy very crowded and people just leach other a lot it's a challenge.

i see light and dark and contours here in this hall i can make out the windows and the round lamps that look like bright patches. so i can orient myself quite well. i locate the steps with my stick. i know the courthouse building very well with all its corridors and corners. sighted people often get lost here and can't find their way out without help. but when i was 11 i once went to a lawyers office was amazing so it was clear that i would study law. the figure of justice is always depicted with a blindfold in my case given that i can't see i don't judge people by their exterior because i can't that also means i don't get distracted and remain focused on what people tell me. but that's isn't mean i'm entirely free of preconceptions they're just

a bit different blind people might not like the sound of someone's voice or the way they shake your hand. i'm not a living light detector but i am pretty sensitive to what people are telling me whether it's true or whether they're lying. i think if you can't imagine a blind person can climb a flight of stands you won't believe that the visually impaired person can hold their own in the workplace. from what i've been blind since birth when i say i'm on my way to work people ask if i'm going to a workshop for the blind they should be asking where do you work that just goes to show how many preconceptions there still are.

in the digital world technology is a blessing and a curse at the same time there are some websites we can use easily but far too many are not accessible. coming. i don't doubt the app will tell me. it's just outside the bus is just arriving till you know what that's done but that can be recognized by the app. it says the next one is delayed coming in 10 minutes it doesn't show the one that's just come. on. it's been it's a mile in their style of in town because there's good public transport that lets me get around. that if self driving cars ever become available and i can afford one

i might consider moving to the country. because you're rolling over your. long view of diversity is that cultural and ethnic background should play no role in our ability to be employed however your race can still be a boon or a burden on the job market something my colleague to ponder chin barely has been finding out for himself here in but it. here's the information a german employer would get about me. i'm a journalist the dortch of ela in berlin and i'm black and african in case you're wondering. after 12 years in germany i'm still surprised that data on ethnic origin and race isn't something german employers normally record but race and ethnicity can still play a role in whether you get hired. a foreign sounding name can already be

a barrier and german employers typically expect a photo along with a job application so what you look like and your perceived race or ethnicity influences your chances of getting a job. german companies recognize that there's a problem with just one of the doing to reduce bias in recruitment one of the country's largest employers says it's may take versity part of its core strategy. parader ga bon employs more than 200000 people across germany the company's diversity manager says they only koopman system helps them to be more objective. but what happens when humans are not computers are involved. newest of all. went out to start testing a new measure that will run during our diversity week. test and it will be a kind of blind audition process blind auditions become ones 1st will remove all

personal data from the job application s. it's. for the blind auditions the recruiters will sit in one video conference room that is it's the candidates will sit in a different conference room or the recruiters will only be able to hear the candidates not see them. but the candidates will be able to see the recruiters. zied the i was there and oh well that's a bit like the voice. yeah. but you can still tell a lot from a voice and an accent several major german corporations adopt a diverse we try to do when we sense here and that has helped them to hire people from different nationalities and different cultural backgrounds but race and ethnicity remain a major problem when it comes forth places from a nation. a survey by germany's anti discrimination agency shows that one in 3 people who reported workplace discrimination said it was because of their ethnicity or race the berlin based citizens for europe says more needs to be done to

understand how race and ethnic origin affect people in the labor market here the u.k. is a step ahead 2 years ago the british government published its 1st race disparity audit the report revealed significant pay differences among various ethnic and racial groups and their white british p.s. according to official u.k. statistics and $2800.00 minority groups earned nearly 22 percent less on average than their white peers in london where the country's ethnicity pick up has widest. that's why calls to require companies to report ethnicity pay gaps are growing louder. we think. that.

i could use. thank you. all right thank you very much things are moving far too slowly when it comes to diversity discrimination based on ethnicity or race is still very much a reality in the u.k. germany and elsewhere and it also affects us in the workplace. i've learned a lot while working on this report but i'm not convinced employers are doing enough to prevent discrimination based on that in this city and race. not enough is another way of saying too little isn't it so fast is something that as we're seeing can ultimately benefit us all and will keep reminding companies that fact report brings to an end this edition of made his business magazine it's been great to have

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