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Ad men’s sex discrimination win shows the challenge of implementing change
29/07/2021
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Amanda Lennon
Amanda Lennon is a London-based employment partner at Spencer West and former HR director

When the UK’s discrimination laws were introduced, legislators were unlikely to have envisaged them being used by white, middle-aged, straight men. And yet that is what has happened in the landmark sex discrimination case brought by two former employees of advertising agency JWT (now owned by Wunderman Thompson). So, how do organisations in male-dominated sectors improve diversity without risking claims like this?