DUBAI: Engineering consultant WSP Middle East, The Red Sea Development Co. (TRSDC), and international law firm Pinsent Masons have joined forces to launch a new podcast episode to celebrate International Women’s Day.
Titled, “Diversity wins, but gaps persist: How can we close the inclusion divide?” the production explores diversity and how organizations in the Middle East and globally can tackle the inclusion divide.
The special-edition podcast is hosted by Gurminder Sagoo, client director for WSP Middle East, in conversation with Ashwaq Al-Babtain, TRSDC project manager, and Gurmeet Kaur, partner at Pinsent Masons Middle East.
Sagoo told Arab News: “In our quest to ensure that equality makes its way into our workplaces, it’s important for us to celebrate diversity and the benefits it can bring.
“If organizations choose to challenge the status quo they can benefit from diverse teams but most importantly individuals can thrive within cultures that champion inclusivity.”
The International Women’s Day special aims to provoke ideas to overcome stigmas and create a broader, more diverse, and aware working environment, the end goal being to find solutions that potentially narrow the gaps currently preventing living and working environments from being inclusive by nature.
“Organizations with more diverse workforces do better because it means there will be a variety of perspectives and it helps us make better decisions and offer innovation and more insightful solutions for our clients,” said Kaur.
“Encouraging discussions such as this will hopefully help to close the diversity gap and facilitate a move toward organizational cultures where managers and leaders advocate for diversity.”
The episode is part of WSP Middle East’s podcast series “Anticipate,” which features conversations with thought leaders from the engineering and construction industry on future trends, hot topics, challenges, and solutions.
