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Dionne Allard, industry award winner, builders merchant and recent parent, talks about how increasing diversity in the workplace can be a bit more complicated than just ‘employing more women’. Like it or not, the thorny issue of biology often requires flexibility on the part of both employers and employees.


WHEN I JOINED the merchant world I never thought over the coming years so much focus would be on Women in the workplace. I have always been an advocate of women’s progression within the merchant industry and I have worked on diversity projects and attended Ashridge Business School to support developing the next women


leaders within the industry. I really felt we were changing the world once known to be a “man’s world” and we were seeing more females joining our businesses and being promoted from within. My awareness changed in August 2015 when I found out I was pregnant. I was suddenly launched into a world of the “unknown” within our industry


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and quickly realised we were only scratching the surface when we think of women working in merchants. Although I covered an Area role I was becoming more aware of my surroundings specifically within branches and began to wonder “what do females do when they are pregnant within a branch?” There is heavy lifting; a lot of


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