Class is a bigger barrier to career progress than gender or ethnicity, a study by KPMG in Britain has shown.
The former top civil servant has in fact rarely been out of the news since she unexpectedly quit to become chief of staff toKPMG’s data showed people from working class families took longer to shift up a grade, compared to those from higher socio-economic backgrounds.
Education is not the only measure of class. Parents’ occupations matter too. But Gray remains an outlier in a country where a small elite still has a big say in how things are run. The Labour party she is trying to get elected has plans to smash a “class ceiling” that by some measures is a bigger problem in the UK than some comparable nations.
The firm measured class by checking what an employee’s highest earning parent did for a living, a method used by PwC, the Slaughter and May law firm and other groups tackling social class diversity.
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