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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent

Scale of bullying and harassment of women in City ‘shocks and alarms’ MPs

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The Financial Conduct Authority’s chief executive said the regulator was concerned about the reports. Photograph: Neil Hall/Reuters

MPs on the cross-party Treasury committee have been “shocked and alarmed” to hear about the scale of bullying and sexual harassment against women in the City of London, which suggests there has been “no improvement whatsoever” over the past 20 years.

The Labour MP and committee member Angela Eagle said private hearings held as part of the committee’s sexism in the City inquiry had raised significant concerns about the conditions women were forced to endure in the UK’s financial services sector.

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