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• equality for all is an ideal goal
• At the management level, less than 1% of employees at Norway’s top 50 companies had an ethnic minority background
• Conversations that are uncomfortable and have negative connotations, such as racial injustice, are rarely discussed
• A need to learn from how these countries have acknowledged and initiated the systemic work on gender equality also needs to be implemented to accelerate change in racial equality
• A national barometer in Norway found that 84% of the population believes that discrimination against immigrants occurs in employment, with research showing that those with foreign-sounding names are 25% less likely to get a job interview

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