Trevor Phillips: Women of Britain, I’m here to help

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'The sleek headquarters of Britain’s equality watchdog is the model of inclusiveness. There’s a breastfeeding room for nursing mothers, subtitles on the television at reception for the hard of hearing, electronic door-opening devices for wheelchair users and an area for saying prayers. The latter was presumably useful this summer as the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) descended into civil war over Trevor Phillips, its leader.
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“I would say that we have a culture that does produce bias, even if people don’t mean it to ... The simple fact is that most offices, no matter how progressive and enlightened, still work on the basis that the average ‘normal’ worker is a white male, whose children are looked after by someone else, who can work 9-5. That doesn’t work for many women.”

He was “shocked, literally shocked” by the results of an investigation into the huge pay gap in the financial sector, to be published tomorrow. The City may be particularly unreconstructed in its attitudes to women, but he believes even institutions that have ploughed huge resources into anti-discrimination, such as the Metropolitan police and the BBC, have a long way to go. “We are going to need some radical, really serious culture change and institutional reform if we are not going to get stuck here,” he says.'