Progress in DE & I is happening, but too slowly. To drive real change, individuals and businesses must take continuous action – challenging biases, advocating inclusivity and ensuring equity is built into every decision. These FinTech experts share their words on female inclusion in their industries.

Helen Owen, Vice President of Marketing at BR-DGE

This year’ s International Women’ s Day theme is particularly apt. Progress in DE & I is happening, but it’ s too slow and not far-reaching enough. Rather than just sharing inspirational stories and coming together to discuss the importance of empowerment, real change will require everyone taking positive and continuous action so that inclusion becomes part of our individual, company, industry, and societal DNA.

I believe there are many people who want to make a difference but are unsure where to start or how. As an industry, we need to come together to provide them with practical steps and tangible actions that give guidance on how to contribute to things like closing the gender pay gap, raising awareness of women’ s health issues in the workplace, creating psychologically safe environments and building fintech solutions that are inclusive by design.

This starts with including actionable steps in every discussion we have on DE & I. The call to action could be as simple as asking people to share case studies on initiatives that have had a positive impact for their company or community, or sharing the details of how to join a relevant initiative or membership organisation like EWPN, of which I am UK Country Ambassador. The bigger and broader the action, the better, but it’ s www. intelligentfin. tech

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