The last few years have seen a major focus on gender diversity in financial services. Has progress has been made?
Summary
Businesses have faced ever greater scrutiny and criticism over gender diversity – with few industries more in the spotlight than financial services. Concerns include firms being unrepresentative of society and male dominated firms being more risk-taking.
But while the general lack of diversity in UK financial services firms is well known, how visible women are across different levels of seniority is not. Existing research on female representation is also often restricted to key market leaders and consistent measurement has been challenging.
Using our own data, we look at how gender diversity has developed at senior level looking at role, firm and sector to see what gains, if any, have been made.
Authors
Karen Croxson, Daniel Mittendorf, Cherryl Ng, Helena Robertson
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