The Everyone Project

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Ros Atkins felt stuck. The career BBC journalist felt that he and many of his colleagues had “accepted that representing women equally in our journalism was a desirable goal, but also accepted that it wasn’t possible,” he said.

Many leaders and organizations struggle with the same challenge: a gap between their virtuous intentions to address gender inequality and knowing what to do in practice to deliver more diversity and inclusion. While most leaders say they want more gender equality, few know how to bring it about. So how, exactly, can we bridge this intention–action gap and make meaningful change on an issue as complex as gender equality?

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Everyone Counts is the first report using data on diversity in the Australian screen industry collected through The Everyone Project. Using an online tool for registration of screen productions and a voluntary demographic survey, The Everyone Project is a groundbreaking initiative aiming to capture the diversity of all cast and crew in TV and film in Australia – from extras through to on-screen leads; producers through to runners; and camera departments through to hair and make-up; working on productions ranging from reality TV through to documentaries and feature films.

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McKinsey's latest research reinforces the link between diversity and company
financial performance—and suggests how organizations can craft better
inclusion strategies for a competitive edge.

Awareness of the business case for inclusion and diversity is on the
rise. While social justice typically is the initial impetus behind these
efforts, companies have increasingly begun to regard inclusion and
diversity as a source of competitive advantage, and specifically as a
key enabler of growth. Yet progress on diversification initiatives has
been slow. And companies are still uncertain about how they can most
effectively use diversity and inclusion to support their growth and
value-creation goals.