Women in Finance Charter tops 200 Signatories

A further 45 companies have signed up to the Women in Finance Charter. This means that the Charter now covers over 650,000 financial services employees in the UK.

“The announcement coincides with the launch of the first Women in Finance Charter Annual Review which shows that, in the first year of the Charter, positive progress is being made to improve gender balance in the industry.

HM Treasury’s Women in Finance Charter asks financial services firms to commit to four industry actions to prepare their female talent for leadership positions. Over 200 firms have signed the Charter and over 650,000 employees in the UK are covered by its plan to tackle gender inequality in financial services.

WIBF President, Vivienne Artz said, “”Women in Banking and Finance is proud to support the Women in Finance Charter as a tangible commitment to achieving gender parity and progression which will hugely benefit the banking and finance industry and our economy.

Learning that more than 200 organisations have signed up to the Women in Finance Charter gives me greater confidence that we will achieve gender balance and equal opportunity in our industry in the near, rather than the far term. To see that more than a quarter of the first group of signatory firms have already met their targets for female representation in senior management shows that with commitment, change can happen, and can happen quickly.

However, it is time for the remainder of the sector to stand and be counted. There can be no ambiguity with numbers; the banking and finance sector cannot disguise progress or lack of with wishful words when the numbers are talking.””

To read the full announcement from HM treasury please visit the Government Website. “