Financial services should be the vanguard for diversity initiatives

Diversity rising up agendas

Last week, Investment Week celebrated the second Women in Investment Awards, following a game-changing 12 months for diversity in asset management and over 1,000 submissions from females across the industry.

This year marked the centenary of women winning the right to vote and saw the first-ever gender pay gap reports.  While the industry reported gender pay gaps that were much larger than we would have hoped for, we have been encouraged by the number of initiatives groups have since adopted to shrink those figures and encourage more women to join - and progress through - the industry. However, this is just the beginning. Asset managers up pressure on UK firms to improve gender diversity Although we have taken great leaps in terms of equal rights from the Suffragette movement a cent...