UK financial services' 30% gender pay gap weakening ability to recruit top talent

Overall non-exec pay falling

Eve Maddock-Jones
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More women are being appointed to the boards of financial services firms in the UK but this is not leading to pay parity with their male peers, as overall non-executive pay is declining.

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