InPublishing: Emerald Publishing recognised for second year

Business in the Community (BITC), The King’s Responsible Business Network, has announced The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025. The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality is one of the UK’s most well-established lists of employers who are committed to taking action to ensure gender equality in the workplace.

Emerald Publishing has been named as one of the 50 employers in The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality this year and has been recognised for demonstrating its commitment to embedding gender equality into all levels of the organisation, encouraging others to follow suit. Emerald added that, along with other applicants, they were examined on the policies and cultural interventions put in place to ensure gender equality, including addressing pay disparities, ensuring progression, offering flexible working and family friendly policies and tackling sexual harassment.

While many employers are working to ensure workplace gender equality, women are still disproportionately impacted during times of economic disruption, such as the aftermath of the pandemic and the rise in the cost of living, and some groups, women from Black, Asian, Mixed Race or other ethnically diverse backgrounds, for example, are worst affected, added the publisher. Emerald Publishing says businesses must address these risks and the slow pace of change, adopting proven measures to drive greater gender equity, taking action by:

Embedding flexible working, proven to lead to a more inclusive working world
Ensuring equitable support for parents and carers in the workplace, regardless of gender or who they provide care for
Enhancing transparency around pay – including salary details on job adverts and being clear about how rewards are set
Taking active, dedicated efforts to surface and address the ongoing issue of sexual harassment
Ensuring an intersectional approach, collecting data and addressing the barriers faced by different groups of women in the workforce (i.e. women in low paid roles)
BITC’s gender equality campaign focuses on equality for all genders and those who do not identify as a gender.

Vicky Williams, chief executive officer of Emerald Publishing, said: "I feel a real sense of pride to see Emerald named as a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality for a second year. At Emerald, we all take responsibility, at every level of the business, for making progress. Our people hold leadership and each other to account. That creates a solid foundation, but we know there’s always more work to do and we refuse to accept things as they are. I feel fortunate to work alongside a team that brings such purpose and determination to the table.

“Being recognised as a Times Top 50 Employer for Gender Equality affirms years of effort in this space and encourages everyone at Emerald to continue raising the bar and to keep moving forward.”

Kieran Harding, acting chief executive of Business in the Community, said: “The businesses that have made it into this year’s Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality demonstrates those that are holding fast to their values around equality.

“It is imperative for employers to eradicate gender inequality in the workplace, not only because it is the right thing to do, but it will also unlock economic benefits for businesses and ‘lift up’ the UK. While there is still much work to be done, the progress being made to ensure equal pay, career progression and offering enhanced flexible working and family friendly policies shows that we’re on the right path.”

The Times Top 50 Employers for Gender Equality 2025 are: