The boss of the London Stock Exchange has said gender diversity is not a “side-of-the-desk exercise”, as stark new figures show that there were nearly 200,000 more women working in the UK’s finance sector in 1997 than there are today.
Women in the financial sector have continued to earn less than their male counterparts over the past five years, according to a report from the Centre of Economic & Business Research (CEBR) on behalf of the London Stock Exchange (LSE).
