I was invited to ‘Balancing the Scales’, Ishreen Bradley's event for Belonging Pioneers. The event explored the importance of social justice and the link between social justice and privilege. The speakers dissected privilege and identified where it shows up. It’s clear, privilege is on display everywhere, not just on Downing Street.To assess the relative privilege of its attendees, the event had a warm-up exercise.Two steps forward if your parents went to university, you went to private school, your biological family comprises of professionals, Doctors, Lawyers etc, you grew up with the expectation of going to university, you grew up with comfortable finances, and so on. If these statements were not relevant to you, take two steps back.  I arrived at the back of the room with one other person.  Yet I have many privileges, I’m a white person living in the UK. Until I moved to London and mixed in circles drawn differently, I had no reason to question my background.This exercise highlighted how in terms of social class, social mobility remains a significant and long-standing problem in terms of accessing top jobs in London, revealing again that it is still dominated by those from affluent social, cultural or economic origins (often all three).Last night demonstrated that I may be an outlier in my career path.Ishreen and her team would like more people to take part in the UK-wide survey The Privilege Conundrum Survey. You can also learn more by listening to The Privilege Eruption Podcast on Apple. We all need to keep doing the difficult work to close these gaps. Opportunity isn’t universal, and those who don’t have it are likely to be as unaware as those in denial.