Alpha Female 2022: Gender parity growth in asset management sector grinds to a halt.
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Citywire's head of ESG and cross-border research Nisha Long and Mary Ann Sieghart, author of The Authority Gap: Why Women are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and what We Can Do about it, take a closer look at the main findings.
The number of women managing active mutual funds has all but ground to a halt in the past year. In this episode, Dr Nisha Long shares the report's main findings with Mary Ann Sieghart who described this year’s results ‘retrograde and depressing’. Also discussed in the episode are the myriad of small changes asset management firms can make to lessen the authority gap in the sector.
The report shows the proportion of female managers has increased by just 1.7 percentage points since 2016. While men dominate launches, with just 10% of new funds being assigned to female managers.
The number of women managing active mutual funds has all but ground to a halt in the past year. In this episode, Dr Nisha Long shares the report's main findings with Mary Ann Sieghart who described this year’s results ‘retrograde and depressing’. Also discussed in the episode are the myriad of small changes asset management firms can make to lessen the authority gap in the sector.
The report shows the proportion of female managers has increased by just 1.7 percentage points since 2016. While men dominate launches, with just 10% of new funds being assigned to female managers.
