Manifesto Ask: Diversity: Investment in Leadership
This is Part 2 in a blog series on the Crowd-Sourced Cultural Manifesto for 2021. The culture sector has collaborated on 8 Asks in advance of the Scottish Parliament Elections in May 2021.
Diversity: Invest in a leadership scheme to ensure that people from diverse backgrounds are heard at an early stage in the design process across Scottish Government policy-making and strategic thinking.
Throughout our discussions we identified that the diversity of the cultural sector itself may be improved by improving structural design. For example: Ensuring diversity on boards needs to be a priority for the cultural sector and for anyone designing strategy or policy (and that includes the government). That’s why we think the next Scottish Government should invest in a leadership scheme to ensure that seats are made available and taken up.
This is a first step towards inclusive decision-making and structural design. Having men and women represented is not enough. Diversity is not just about men or women or race, it’s about age, class, disability, gender reassignment, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation, and marriage or civil partnership.
Manifesto 2021
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