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Women in Finance 2016 Empowering Productivity Report
More women than men start out in Financial Services but, as they progress, the majority fall out, especially at middle management level. This leaves almost all of the top jobs in the hands of men.
https://uk.virginmoney.com/virgi…

Prime Minister backs women in finance as Charter tops 200 signatories
https://www.gov.uk/government/ne…

FinTech has a bigger gender problem than it realises
https://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/…

Fixing Finance’s Gender Imbalance
The Women in Finance Charter, an initiative from the U.K. Treasury to improve gender balance in the finance industry, just released its first progress report. Frankly, it makes for depressing reading. But there's a glimmer of hope in one of the remedies it proposes.
https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly…

Gender pay gap is widest when women hit 50, reveals new research
https://www.independent.co.uk/ne…
The lack of women in tech is getting worse
Yet despite the scrutiny, the number of boards with no women increased in 2017, according to Silicon Valley Bank's 2017 "Startup Outlook" report.
http://uk.businessinsider.com/re…
UK FinTech Census 2017
http://www.ey.com/Publication/vw…
EU: Going Digital: the future of work for women
https://www.oecd.org/employment/…

A third of UK females interested in STEM careers put off before leaving secondary school
https://www.recruitment-internat…
UK Commission for Employment and Skills: Gender and digital
The shortfall comes at a time where skilled staff are in high demand: the research found there were a higher proportion of vacancies in digital and creative than across the economy as a whole, with high-level roles such as programmers and web developers remaining unfilled. The industries now face a battle for talent. Projections suggest that 1.2m people will be needed to fill jobs in the sector by 2022.
https://www.gov.uk/government/ne…
The Tilted Playing Field: Hidden Bias in Information Technology Workplaces
http://www.lpfi.org/the-tilted-p…