Business Secretary Vince Cable has written to the seven FTSE 100 companies with no female representation at the highest level to ask what steps they are taking to increase diversity.
In an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, argues that sustainability is taking over from diversity, the longtime leader, as the top ideological enthusiasm on college campuses.
The big growth in diversity around the Puget Sound is taking place not in the city of Seattle, but in suburban hubs like Bellevue (population: 122, 000).