How has financial advice progressed on gender diversity?

100 years since women got the right to vote

Victoria McKeever
clock • 5 min read

Today marks the centenary of women first gaining the right to vote, so we caught up with some of the industry's most influential women to see how they think financial advice is progressing on gender diversity…

On 6 February 1918, Parliament passed the Representation of the People Act granting certain women over age 30 the power to vote for the first time. Of course, the pursuit of gender equality has progressed somewhat in the last hundred years but there is still a long way to go, particularly within the financial sector. The requirement for firms with more than 250 employees to publish gender pay gap data, by April, is just one example of this continued push for change, as is the Women in Finance Charter - the government initiative designed to improve equality within the financial sector. ...

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