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Dec 19, 2024 | 
cityam.com | Eliza Filby
| Any DEI framework that’s focused on ethnicity but silent on the messy realities of social mobility risks letting down the very people it’s trying to champion, says Eliza FilbyA couple of months ago I was running a workshop for trainees at an international law firm in the UK helping bright Gen Z recruits integrate into their new workplace. The discussion drifted into diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).
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Dec 7, 2024 | 
bigissue.com | Eliza Filby
Housing Inheritocracy is the real dividing line between young people – a division between those with parental property wealth and those without by: Eliza Filby “Homeownership is now a hereditary privilege,” this was the damning conclusion of Financial Times journalist John Burn-Murdoch in 2023. Our housing market isn’t only dysfunctional, it is ever more reliant on the Bank of Mum and Dad. Since the 2010s, parents have been a top 10 mortgage lender in the UK.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
literaryreview.co.uk | Eliza Filby
‘Inheritocracy’ is an ugly word to describe an increasingly important social and economic development: the passing of approximately £5.5 trillion in housing wealth from baby boomers, Britain’s first truly propertied generation, to millennials. Eliza Filby, a leading observer of generational change, has a sharp eye for the topsy-turvy consequences of this huge act of inheritance, which is destined to take us back to the 19th-century world of Austen, Eliot and Dickens.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
msn.com | Eliza Filby
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
cityam.com | Eliza Filby
Tuesday 26 November 2024 5:55 am | Updated: Monday 25 November 2024 12:59 pm Could a chatbot groom your child?
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Savannah Ayoade-Greaves |Marina Hyde |Eliza Filby |Simon Hattenstone |Serena Manteghi |Briony Rawle | +1 more
Marina Hyde asks us to spare a sob for Don Jr, replaced in Daddy’s affections by Elon Musk. The Bank of Mum and Dad – the unspoken dynamic behind society’s growing inequality of ‘inheritocracy’. ‘I’ve been called worse than a Nazi’: Simon Hattenstone meets Jacob Rees-Mogg. And psychologist Lucy Foulkes on why we should take teenage love more seriously
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Eliza Filby
You know the Bank of Mum and Dad when you see it: it’s your friend who seems broke, but always has a safety net, or who suddenly (but discreetly) acquires the deposit for a home. It’s those who stayed with their parents while they saved for a flat, or stuck it out in a profession they were passionate about even though the wages are chronically low. It’s those who do not need to consider the financial costs of having children.
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
cityam.com | Eliza Filby
Thursday 31 October 2024 5:45 am | Updated: Wednesday 30 October 2024 1:57 pm Why millennial women are efficient – but not very productive – mothers Millennial women have reached child-bearing age in a corporate culture that encourages them to have fewer babies, closer together and later in life, says Eliza Filby Few may have seen the link between yesterday’s budget and the latest fertility rates from the ONS which showed they have dropped to their lowest mark since records began....
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
cityam.com | Eliza Filby
Thursday 26 September 2024 5:46 am | Updated: Wednesday 25 September 2024 6:00 pm Inheritocracy: We need to talk about the Bank of Mum and Dad Inheritance, tax and social care are interlinked, and it is time we talked about it, writes generational expert Eliza Filby In the 1980s, economists at Harvard discovered a connection between expected inheritance and the level of care that adult children gave to their elderly relatives. Rich parents received considerably more phone calls and visits...
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Sep 19, 2024 | 
msn.com | Eliza Filby
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