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14 Nov '12, 12pm

Defence organisations top workplace equality lists: The British Army and the Royal Navy are among the top 10 UK

The results of this year's UK Business in the Community (BITC) gender and race diversity survey have revealed the public sector's top 10 organisations for ethnicity and gender. Taken from 67 entries across public and private sector organisations the results reflect the organisations who scored highest across comprehensive workplace metrics and case studies, inlcuding career progression, recruitment, supplier diversity and senior management and board representation. Helen Wells, Director of Opportunity Now, the gender equality campaign within BITC, which has run the annual survey since 1998, said: "Inclusion [in the top 10] is the diversity standard all organisations will aspire to attain. "We are looking at organisations that have moved the dial in terms of women's recruitment, retention and progression, and the same is true from an ethnicity point of view." "Some of the o...

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