Is the marketing industry as progressive as it claims?

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Is marketing as progressive, equitable and inclusive an industry as it claims to be? Taking pay disparity as a meaningful measure, Marketing Week data proves the industry still has many issues to resolve. With marketing’s gender pay gap now at a five-year high of 21.7%, the 2026 Career & Salary Survey data also reveals both the ethnicity and socio-economic pay gaps are at their highest levels since 2022 at 13.7% and 18.6%, respectively. To discuss what needs to change, Marketing Week deputy managing editor and head of insight, Charlotte Rogers, is joined by founder of creative comms agency Work & Class Laura Burch, The Marketing Academy Foundation CEO and campaigning chair on WACL’s executive committee, Lianre Robinson and co-founder of workplace equality champion People Like Us, Darain Faraz.

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