The real estate industry is at a vital point when it comes to diversity and inclusion. Much has changed: Conversations that wouldn’t have happened 15 years ago about the need to improve are being had in the open. But words need to be matched with actions — diversity of all types in the top ranks of real estate firms is still hard to find. In honor of International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, Bisnow listened in on a conversation with six female real estate professionals, from a variety of backgrounds and working in different parts of the industry, whose experience in the sector ranged from three years to almost 30. They discussed the things that have changed for the better in real estate, the structural problems facing the industry, the power of seeing yourself reflected in senior positions, and how the coronavirus pandemic is both helping and hindering the quest for equality in property. Here is what they had to say on these vital questions. 
On what has changed for the betterAlison Newton, co-head of real estate at law firm Addleshaw Goddard“I can vividly remember a conversation with my managing partner in the 1990s at a different firm, who went on to be senior partner: It was a toe-to-toe argument about whether there was any…  Read the full story here. | 
