Mark.Freed / 10 Sep 2018
“Beside every great person is another great person, living and working as they would like.” “Behind every great man is a great woman,” is these days considered a rather archaic expression, one that harks back to times gone by, thankfully, when wives, seemingly, selflessly...
Read moreMark.Freed / 23 Aug 2018
I often find myself in the position of frontman for E2W. The firm dedicates itself to supporting the financial services careers of women and helping banks to collect the gender dividend. As frontman I regularly meet new people. The brave ones ask “What's a man...
Read moreMark.Freed / 12 Aug 2018
Are you an organisation struggling to tackle your gender pay gap? To attract women into senior roles? To retain women? Read on to see how E2W can help… Like the common cold, it seems that everyone has an opinion on the best way to &lsquo...
Read moreMark.Freed / 05 Jul 2018
We like it when people do things without being asked. HSBC has started down this route – can it continue and make a difference? Submitting to peer pressure – why it’s good for the financial services’ sector I think it’s fair to say...
Read moreMark.Freed / 28 Jun 2018
The recruitment departments of the country’s leading financial institutions retain E2W as a key component of their recruitment strategy to find the best female candidates for their senior roles. Drawing on our membership network, we are able to introduce highly capable, professional female candidates for...
Read moreMark.Freed / 23 Jun 2018
Kathrine Virginia "Kathy" Switzer (born January 5, 1947, in Amberg, Germany is an American marathon runner, author, and television commentator. In 1967, she became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a numbered entry. During her run, race official Jock Semple...
Read moreMark.Freed / 15 Jun 2018
What does it take for a financial services firm to win the diversity race? How to place your money on a winner – what to look out for in a winning organisation. I am not a betting man, never have been and probably never will be but with Royal...
Read moreMark.Freed / 13 Jun 2018
The Treasury Committee launched its Women in Finance inquiry on 19 October 2017 to: Examine the value to financial firms of having greater gender balance across all job grades and functions; Identify the barriers to women entering and progressing their careers in the financial services industry and whether they are more prevalent...
Read moreMark.Freed / 30 Apr 2018
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...
Read moreMark.Freed / 20 Apr 2018
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...
Read moreTina.Freed / 02 Mar 2018
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? ...
Read moreMark.Freed / 02 Mar 2018
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...
Read moreTina.Freed / 15 Feb 2018
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...
Read moreMark.Freed / 09 Feb 2018
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...
Read moreRhian Bowler / 23 Jan 2018
Rhian Bowler, the E2W Leadership Coach, shares her experiences and views on E2W’s recent paper, ‘Recruitment Strategies for Financial Institutions to Meet Gender Diversity Targets’ and explains how challenges really should be seen as opportunities. As the E2W leadership coach with...
Read moreMark.Freed / 16 Jan 2018
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...
Read moreMark.Freed / 19 Dec 2017
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...
Read moreMark.Freed / 05 Dec 2017
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. ...
Read moreRhian Bowler / 29 Nov 2017
The Power of Coaching Personal coaching brings many benefits, some expected, but many are a surprise to those experiencing coaching for the first time. We often don’t know, what we don’t know! This may sound crass or clunky, however many individuals who have undertaken...
Read moreMark.Freed / 27 Nov 2017
In the summer of 2017, E2W carried out a survey of its’ members on their experiences of the recruitment process. Several gender-recruitment influenced questions were asked including the impact on the process of having a female hiring manager. “Notably, those with a female hiring manager were...
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