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A woke mining boss shows why Trump’s DEI crusade will fail

Davos showed how many companies are convinced diversity and environmental measures make financial sense.

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Last week, as the newly sworn-in President Donald Trump announced the US government would now recognise only two genders, male and female, a triumph of corporate diversity was being applauded, loudly, in Davos.

It was directed at a boss who had just told an event on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum about a transgender employee who had long dreamt of adopting a baby girl and buying a house for her mother.

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Pilita Clark is an associate editor and business columnist at the Financial Times. She writes a weekly column on modern corporate life, as well as features and other articles.

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