Lifts and Ladders: resolving ethnic minority women's exclusion from power. June 2009

Lifts and Ladders: resolving ethnic minority women's exclusion from power brings together all of Fawcett’s previous research on women and power to prepare the ground for a fresh analysis on why ethnic minority women are excluded from power in the UK. It then pools and builds on Fawcett’s most recent work on ethnic minority women and power, including findings from the high profile Routes to Power research study, the expert Accessing Power roundtable series, and the agenda setting Gender Equality Forum on race and gender that all form part of Seeing Double,
Fawcett’s flagship national campaign on ethnic minority women in Britain.

The report looks at:

• Challenging the usual story: focusing on demand instead of supply
• The formal rules in employment: interrogating the dominant work paradigm
• The informal rules in employment: exclusive organisational cultures
• Ethnic minority women in politics
• Business, legal and ethical imperatives
• Recommendations