Katie.Dix / 28 Jun 2021
Mark Freed was recently quoted in an article featured in the Financial Times, originally published on 20th June 2021. The article, Why Women Shy Away From Senior Finance Careers, discusses workplace stereotypes that impact women's careers. The dearth of senior women in finance embarrasses not only fintechs eager...
Read moreKatie.Dix / 21 Apr 2021
The Gender Pay Gap in the Legal, Financial and Professional Sectors - Call for research participants Friend of E2W Jack Daly is undertaking Postgraduate Research at Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change Leeds University Business School into closing the gender pay gap in Legal, Financial and Professional sectors...
Read moreMark.Freed / 17 Mar 2021
EVENT: MALE ALLYSHIP - HOW MEN CAN BECOME BETTER ALLIES TO WOMEN Over the last few years many investment and savings firms have stepped up their focus on tackling gender inequalities and creating a more inclusive workplace. But although progress is being made the pace of change is too...
Read moreMark.Freed / 08 Feb 2021
Why gender equality is good for everyone – men included. If this TED talk resonates with you a new initiative is launching soon Men for Inclusion. Contact me to find out more, mark.freed@e2w.co
Read moreKatie.Dix / 08 Feb 2021
This blog was originally posted on our website in March 2020. Has anything changed in the year just gone? Have things got easier or better whilst most of us are working remotely? Please let us know your thoughts, you can comment on our LinkedIn post below. I recently read...
Read moreKatie.Dix / 21 Jan 2021
E2W member, Miren-Edurne De Frutos, creates Government petition to support Neurodiversity. Please read Miren's statement below: I have created a government petition to improve funding for neurodiversity diagnosis, identification and support in schools. This is something extremely close to my heart which affects 15% of the UK population,...
Read moreMark.Freed / 10 Jun 2020
Join us and take positive action and sign a petition to persuade the government to Introduce Mandatory Ethnicity Pay Gap Reporting along side Gender Pay Gap Reporting. The FCA are the only organisation in financial services that reports their Ethnic pay gap alongside their gender pay gap. Consider...
Read moreMark.Freed / 10 Jun 2020
E2W members are an amazing community of women pursuing careers in financial services. We have championed and supported these women for almost twenty years because, improving the opportunities and their chances of progressing in their careers is vital on so many levels. Closing the gender gap is our...
Read moreKatie.Dix / 02 Jun 2020
Mark contributes to the Euromoney ‘Finance is Female’ discussions. Last week, E2W’s Mark Freed was pleased to speak on a Euromoney Panel, analysing The Gender Pay Gap Report accompanied by, Mandy DeFilippo, Morgan Stanley and Amanda Pullinger, 100 Women in Finance. Euromoney has written up...
Read moreMark.Freed / 14 May 2020
Gender Pay Gap Reporting – April 2019 What the numbers tell us? A selection of Corporate and Investment Banks & Asset Managers - The Gender Pay Gap Over Time Of the 61 firms in our report 27 firms (almost half) had proportionately fewer women in top quartile wage earning roles in...
Read moreMark.Freed / 16 Mar 2020
How to close the gap in Investment Management: RECRUITING A DIVERSE TEAM – from the top down. A report by E2W Closing the gap quickly depends on recruitment processes that are robust enough to provide high-quality female candidates for more senior roles. Most firms will need the proportion...
Read moreKatie.Dix / 10 Mar 2020
Male Allies We've commented for a long time now, on the importance of male allies. You can read a blog we have previously published here. The Financial Times has reported one of the most senior executives at Goldman Sachs, Gregg Lemkau, is among a growing number...
Read moreKatie.Dix / 09 Mar 2020
I recently read an interesting article published by the Harvard Business Review on what’s really holding women back? You can read the full article here. As scholars of gender inequality in the workplace, we are routinely asked by companies to investigate why they are having trouble...
Read moreKatie.Dix / 03 Mar 2020
The European Banking Authority (EBA) calls for measures to ensure a more diverse management body in institutions. You can read the full article here. The European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a new benchmarking report on diversity practices in credit institutions and investment firms analysing the development since its 2015 diversity...
Read moreMark.Freed / 26 Feb 2020
The second article, in a series written by our special guest contributor, Marypat Smucker, CFA looks at Gender Lens Equity Funds and Women in Leadership. Gender lens investing in equity and fixed income first developed based on evidence of superior performance by companies with higher women-in-leadership (WIL) metrics. Indeed...
Read moreMark.Freed / 20 Feb 2020
I was recently approached by Justine McNulty, a fantastic and inspirational women, to discuss how we can help in the launch of her new business – Mobile Midwives. Mobile Midwives will bridge the gap between the NHS and professional women by providing maternity care directly to them in the workplace. ...
Read moreMark.Freed / 12 Feb 2020
First few firms file their gender pay gap reports The first few investment management firms have now provided their gender pay gap reporting ahead of the 4th April deadline. One of the reporting statistics shows the proportion of women in each pay quartile and gives an indication of female...
Read moreMark.Freed / 04 Feb 2020
Know your female employees Financial businesses have to know their customers, but few seem to put the same effort into knowing their female employees. And this is strange, because they do seem to understand the men. I’m middle-aged and if an employer was trying to attract someone of...
Read moreMark.Freed / 28 Jan 2020
Why it’s time to drop the stereotypes I am a middle-aged man. At some point, though I’m trying not to think about it, I’ll have to start dropping the ‘middle’ and replace it with ‘old’. As a white middle-class...
Read moreMark.Freed / 21 Jan 2020
The “old boys’ club” is still going strong Four years ago, the report by Jayne-Anne Gadhia that led to the launch of the Women in Finance Charter, now widely signed up to by the industry, pointed to the old boys’ network as a factor inhibiting...
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