Event: International Women’s Day

Women in Tax and CIOT and ATT New Tax Professionals Committees present their Male Allies webinar on International Women’s Day, at 12pm on 8 March, reports Tasneem Kadiri #BreaktheBias #HeforShe

Working towards a more equal world has never been so important. This is an overall society issue. In order to achieve true gender parity we need all of our society to be on this journey. How do we help to get male allies on board in the tax profession to help achieve gender parity?

I strongly believe that the only way to get to true gender parity in the tax profession is for more men to stand up as ‘male allies’. We already know that there are so many obstacles in the way of women overall with how society brings up and views boys and girls differently.

I will be hosting the Male Allies event with Toyin Oyeneyin, Chair of the ATT New Tax Professionals Committee. We will be exploring the concept of ‘Allyship’ with a panel of UN male allies in the tax profession:

• Simon Gallow is an Advocate and HeForShe Lead for UN Women UK. He has also been Development Director and a Policy Analyst in the UN Women Economic Empowerment Division in New York, and Strategist for the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC). He brings a wealth of knowledge to the cause.
• Jeremy Coker is a past ATT President and Council member of the ATT. At Oury Clark, Jeremy deals with all aspects of tax relating to private clients, high net worth individuals, owner managed businesses and small and medium sized enterprises.
• Lee Holloway is a Corporate Tax Partner at Grant Thornton with around 19 years’ tax experience. Lee’s particular expertise is in the retail and consumer business sector, having worked in-house for nearly a decade leading the tax functions at Next plc and Halfords plc and also working as a tax Director at Molson Coors, a US listed global brewer.

Join us at 12pm on 8 March for this thought provoking event to look at breaking the bias in the tax profession around male allies. This event is aimed at all those working in the tax profession.

It’s free to attend this event but please feel free to make a donation to UN Women UK. This is the only global organisation working to make gender equality a reality in every way, from grassroots programmes with the most vulnerable women and girls, to changing attitudes, and helping governments design gender-equal policy. The gender equality movement starts with you. For more details, visit www.unwomenuk.org/campaigns/safe-spaces-now

Tasneem Kadiri is Chair of Women in Tax, part of the ATT and CIOT EDI Committee, and the UK and Ireland Tax Director at L’Oréal, where she is responsible for both direct and indirect taxes.

Register your attendance at: www.tax.org.uk/male-allies-wit-22