According to research from the University of Oxford, applicants from minority ethnic backgrounds have to send 60% more applications to get a positive response from an employer than a white person of British origin. This means people with ‘non-white’ sounding names are being screened out before they make it to the interview stage, holding back their career opportunities before they can even start.

Together with People Like Us we launched a campaign to call out and tackle how “name bias” in UK hiring practices can impact income for the rest of your life.

#NameTheBias, highlights how opportunity gaps lead to income gaps, and the unconscious places where they arise – by getting people to understand that name bias perpetuates unequal pay and demanding the UK government legally mandates Ethnicity Pay Gap reporting.