Do tech firms really need more masculinity? - Viv Paxinos, AllBright CEO

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🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

DEI is under attack. US President Donald Trump has begun a crusade to strip diversity policies from government institutions, while senior tech leaders like Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg have called for workplaces to become ‘more masculine’ despite the fact that the social media giant’s workforce is already male-dominated.

Is now really the time to tear up the DEI rulebook, or are there good reasons to embrace the positive attitude to diversity that many large corporations have taken over the past decade?

Viv Paxinos is CEO of AllBright, where she leads a global collective of 500,000 ambitious women committed to creating a more equitable world for all. She believes in maintaining a people-first culture through nurturing and mentoring talent to create a best-in-class working environment.

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0:00.0	I think there's a real danger with that tech pro culture,
0:10.0	and we've seen it before in the past.
0:16.0	I think the companies that don't double down on making sure that they're creating cultures that are inclusive
0:21.6	and that are representative will struggle in the future.
0:28.2	When you look at who's making the investments, most of that make up is men. So if you have more
0:33.7	women on the other side of the table, then they're more likely to invest more on
0:37.7	female-driven businesses.
0:43.7	From the first-time founders to the funds that backs them, innovation needs different.
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1:21.5	Hello and welcome to the UKTM podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK tech industry and the destination for all things UK tech related.
1:26.2	I'm your host, Jane Wakefield, and today I'm joined by
1:29.5	Viv Paxinos, CEO of Albright and Everywoman, organisations that support women in business. Welcome, Viv.
1:36.9	Thank you so much for having me, Jane. So let's start, shall we, with you telling me a little bit about
1:42.6	what it is that Albright is setting out to
1:45.1	achieve? Sure. So Albright is a global learning and experience company. And our mission is to
1:52.7	advance women in business. We help support women across all different sectors, so we're pretty
1:58.7	sector agnostic. And then we support them across all levels
2:02.7	of their careers, so whether you're a female founder, mid-level or board level. Part of that
2:08.1	means we go into organizations and we provide them with a solution to improve performance
2:12.9	to optimize organizations for greatness. We do that through L&D programs that are very robust,
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