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The motherhood penalty is killing women’s creative careers in the coronavirus crisis

By Nicola Kemp

Women’s careers are in danger of becoming collateral damage in the pandemic. Here’s what you can do about it.

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Learning after lockdown

By Izzy Ashton

A selection of some of the best industry training and mentoring schemes, as told by the people who’ve done them.

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Proactive allyship: Three things agencies can do today

By Hannah Baker

Hannah Baker, Head of Marketing at The Marketing Store on the importance of focusing on actions, not words when it comes to committing to drive change.

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Press Pause empowers the industry to speak up against discrimination

By Izzy Ashton

Havas London and Creative Equals have joined forces to share an internal agency anti-discrimination initiative to help the industry combat racism.

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Don’t build it back. Change it

By Gareth Moss

Gareth Moss, Founder of The Blueprint on how it takes diverse and progressive leadership to change the game.

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Greater than 11% launches fundraiser to support creative and non-binary women

By Nicola Kemp

Crowdfunder aims to support creatives through one-off grants in the midst of the coronavirus crisis.

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How to overcome a creative crisis of confidence in the midst of Coronavirus

By Nicola Kemp

Progression, promotion, project speed and scale; in the midst of a global pandemic the familiar refrain from the creative industry is a sense of an individual lack of momentum.

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NABS working parents on how to support parents through the summer juggle

By Nicola Kemp

With summer holidays on the horizon, the NABS team share their experiences of the WFH juggle and offer their top tips for employers as to how to support staff through this challenging time.

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What does a woman have to do to get onto an advertising jury?

By Nicola Kemp

A new campaign to support the Gerety Awards shines a spotlight on the need to improve representation on award show juries.

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A charity walk full of steps to self-care

By Karla Smith

Karla Smith, Finance Director of Ogilvy UK and Treasurer of NABS on finding a route to self-care while raising funds for the ad industry; how you can look after yourself in these times while looking after your colleagues.

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The next generation of creative talent: D&AD celebrates 40 years of New Blood

By Izzy Ashton

It is now perhaps more important than ever to support and nurture the next generation of emerging talent and offer them resources and space for both learning and development.

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Why don’t men and women talk anymore?

By Victoria Brooks

Fixing the communication gap at the heart of our industry is key to equality, writes Victoria Brooks as she introduces Bloom’s 2020 Exchange programme.

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Creative Access highlights the realities of finding a job under lockdown

By Izzy Ashton

When it comes to the creative industries, businesses have long been guilty of talking the talk when it comes to representation and inclusion, not often backing this up within their internal hiring processes.

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Rankin launches a print sale to raise money for the #MentorBlackBusiness project

The old adage reminds us that, while talk is cheap, it’s the action around that talk that is pivotal.

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