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Legal & General Investment Management - Working for Women

Mark.Freed / 30 Apr 2018

Legal & General Investment Management - Working for Women

Legal & General Investment Management - Working for Women E2W’s many clients across the City are all on the journey to gender parity, but they’re not all at the same stage.    We’re starting a series of company profiles that will draw...

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Stop minding the gender pay gap, start closing it.

Mark.Freed / 20 Apr 2018

Stop minding the gender pay gap, start closing it.

How E2W is changing the industry and how it could help you. The gender pay gap reporting is complete for this year.  Will things change by 2018?  We have some ideas on how the figures could look differently next year. I am delighted that the April deadline for...

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Starting to build the talent pipeline

Rhian Bowler / 28 Mar 2018

Starting to build the talent pipeline

E2W and the CISI launched a pilot programme in 2017 to encourage more girls into financial services and to help to build the talent pipeline that in future years will be filling more senior roles.   About the programme E2W and the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment ...

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Can you see the future of your industry?  Jodi Young could too – read how she helped NatWest Markets

Mark.Freed / 28 Mar 2018

Can you see the future of your industry?  Jodi Young could too – read how she helped NatWest Markets

E2W is speaking to women who have been working in financial services over the decades to celebrate the 100 year anniversary of women securing the vote.  Jodi Young has shared her career with us as well as how she would advocate approaching your career. Jodi Young, Head of UK...

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Are you one of seventy thousand?

Mark.Freed / 23 Mar 2018

Are you one of seventy thousand?

To close the gender pay gap in financial services, the industry will need to promote or recruit and then retain 70,000 women into senior roles. Today we are proud that almost 9,000 of those women are registered with us and have become part of our community.  Why not become one of...

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E2W clients Investec, UBS and Goldman Sachs among 45 new signatories

Mark.Freed / 17 Mar 2018

E2W clients Investec, UBS and Goldman Sachs among 45 new signatories

What a week it’s been for the Women in Finance Charter.  E2W clients Investec, UBS and Goldman Sachs are among 45 new signatories and the first annual review of progress made by the first cohort of signatories, including E2W, is published.  In the first of...

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Women in Finance Charter - A massive change in recruitment practices

Mark.Freed / 17 Mar 2018

Women in Finance Charter - A massive change in recruitment practices

What a week it’s been for the Women in Finance Charter.  E2W clients Investec, UBS and Goldman Sachs are among 45 new signatories and the first annual review of progress made by the first cohort of signatories, including E2W, is published.  In the second of...

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How will you commit to helping women in finance in 2018?

Tina.Freed / 12 Mar 2018

How will you commit to helping women in finance in 2018?

 At the E2W Front Office team meeting on the eve of International Women’s Day, we discussed how we could assist our female colleagues - #pressforprogress. On the eve of International Women’s Day, I met with the E2W Front Office team, discussing IWD&rsquo...

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“On International Women’s Day, ‘press for progress’ any way you can,” says Tina Freed.

Tina.Freed / 02 Mar 2018

“On International Women’s Day, ‘press for progress’ any way you can,” says Tina Freed.

It’s International Women’s Day and its slogan this year is ‘Press for Progress’.  Tina Freed encourages you to stand up and be counted and do your bit to press for progress, however large or small.  What could you do?   ...

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Drum roll please – this is no average blog!

Mark.Freed / 02 Mar 2018

Drum roll please – this is no average blog!

As April looms, more and more financial institutions are reporting their Gender Pay Gap statistics.  Mark Freed helps you make sense of the data and know what to look out for. Gender Pay Gap reporting – the E2W approach As financial institutions are starting to report their gender...

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Women in Finance Summit - 2018

Mark.Freed / 24 Feb 2018

Women in Finance Summit - 2018

Details and to register: Delegate Fee: £495.00+ VAT Discounted to £346.50+ VAT with code WIF2E2W  https://www.cityandfinancialconferences.com/womeninfinance2018  E2W is delighted to be sponsoring the 2nd edition of the Annual Women in Finance Summit taking place in Central London on 22nd March 2018....

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E2W CISI Sponsored Students Pass First Time!

Mark.Freed / 22 Feb 2018

E2W CISI Sponsored Students Pass First Time!

E2W is at the forefront of helping to nurture the women of the future in the financial services’ industry.  We’re thrilled that our pilot collaboration with the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investment has been a huge success. At E2W, we are passionate about...

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33 Firms including Goldman Sachs, UBS and JP Morgan asked to sign the Women in Finance Charter.

Tina.Freed / 15 Feb 2018

33 Firms including Goldman Sachs, UBS and JP Morgan asked to sign the Women in Finance Charter.

Treasury Select Committee chair Nicky Morgan is calling on 33 financial services firms including Goldman Sachs, UBS and JP Morgan to sign the Women in Finance Charter. Nicky has written to 33 financial services firms who have yet to sign up and asked them to confirm to the committee by Friday if...

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WIFC - Smashed It…. Thank You

Mark.Freed / 09 Feb 2018

WIFC - Smashed It…. Thank You

Women in Finance Charter – Smashed it in 2017 and looking forward to 2018.   As the go-to place for women to manage their financial services careers and for financial institutions to collect the gender dividend / recruit more women E2W is, of course, keen to support any initiative that leads to...

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Women in Technology and Front Office, Executive Hiring Reinvented - E2W Select

Mark.Freed / 06 Feb 2018

Women in Technology and Front Office, Executive Hiring Reinvented - E2W Select

In December 2017, E2W launched the ‘E2W Select’ programme, a programme designed to help our members at managing director level and above to explore, confidentially, new opportunities with financial institutions looking to recruit more women at a senior level. Are you seeking a new role within the...

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Mrs Pankhurst we hear you!  The E2W rally cry

Mark.Freed / 23 Jan 2018

Mrs Pankhurst we hear you!  The E2W rally cry

Emmeline Pankhurst rocked the boat and changed women’s role in society.  E2W has provided evidence to the Treasury Select Commitee's women in finance Inquiry and E2W CEO Mark Freed explains how you too can shake up society. When Emmeline Pankhurst died in 1928,...

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It remains challenging and potentially risky for a candidate to talk about flexible / agile working

Mark.Freed / 16 Jan 2018

It remains challenging and potentially risky for a candidate to talk about flexible / agile working

The Financial Services sector, particularly in London, was notorious for demanding long hours and for its culture of presenteeism.   Has that changed?  Should London and the leading City banks make more of the agile and flexible working that they now offer? The stereotypical view of the average...

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Football, entertainment and financial services – what do they all have in common?

Mark.Freed / 16 Jan 2018

Football, entertainment and financial services – what do they all have in common?

In the press recently there has been lots of coverage of women’s issues.  Here Mark explores some of them and realises that women are facing similar issues and that they need to stand up and be counted.  Football, entertainment and financial services – what do they...

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Recruitment Strategies for Financial Institutions to Meet Gender Diversity Targets

Mark.Freed / 19 Dec 2017

Recruitment Strategies for Financial Institutions to Meet Gender Diversity Targets

To meet commitments, like 50/50 by 2020 many firms will need to ensure that they recruit more women than men across the board. However, the best performers are struggling to exceed 40% women in their new recruits and in certain divisions, technology and front office for example, the gender...

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A little obsessed with gender pay gap reporting

Mark.Freed / 05 Dec 2017

A little obsessed with gender pay gap reporting

As the deadline for gender pay gap reporting becomes ever closer (April 2018), Mark Freed examines how other industries’ gender pay gaps compare to that of financial services. I am, some might say, becoming a little obsessed with gender pay gap reporting but that’s because it matters. ...

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