DiverseCity Counts features research that studies the levels and impact of diversity in leadership. It sheds light on the representation of visible minorities and under-represented immigrants across sectors and reveals to us where progress is being made and where we’re falling behind.
Latest research
- DiverseCity Counts 7 DiverseCity contracted Nanos Research to conduct a first-time public opinion poll of residents in municipalities across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) on the topic of diversity in leadership.
- DiverseCity Counts 6 The next frontier for diversity: new report explores supplier diversity in the GTA. The latest DiverseCity Counts research, by Dr. Paul D. Larson, CN Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Manitoba, examines whether, why and how organizations have embraced diversity in their purchasing and supply chain strategies, policies and practices.
- DiverseCity Counts 5 This report takes a closer look at the nonprofit sector and finds that the more diverse a board, the better it works. The report includes a number of recommendations for organizations that wish to strengthen their board, including understanding and communicating the benefits of leadership diversity and aligning diversity efforts to the organization’s mission and mandate.
- DiverseCity Counts 4 This report takes a closer look at elected office. The Diversity Gap: The Electoral Under-Representation of Visible Minorities finds that while they comprise 40% of the Greater Toronto Area population, only 11% of those elected to office are visible minorities.
- DiverseCity Counts 3 The 2011 report took a unique look at the legal sector. It found that just 6.8 per cent of leaders (judges, governing bodies and law school leaders and law partners and crown attorneys) in the GTA legal sector were visible minorities compared to 14.4 per cent of a talent pool of practising visible minority lawyers in the GTA. While 6.6 per cent of partners at the biggest law firms were visible minorities, 8.3 per cent of judges were visible minorities.
