Financial Services still penalising women for natural life events

'A culture shift is needed'

It is 2022 and we should be operating in a time where there is equality in terms of opportunity, pay and treatment for both men and women in financial services.

Sadly, this is clearly not the case.  Our white paper - The Gender Gap: Change Starts With Bravery - explores the challenges facing financial services, the desire for change and the actions required to close the gap once and for all.   A key area within the paper centres on inequalities and barriers linked to life events that prevent or impede female careers in financial services. Through our detailed research with over 100 professional females in finance we learned that 50% of them have experienced barriers to progression linked to life events such as starting a family or caring for ...