Number of Top-Earning Women in UK’s Finance Sector Slips
- Men make up more than four in five of the top 1% of earners
- LSE study examines progress in finance, professional services
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The likelihood of being a woman at the very top of the UK’s financial and professional services was already vanishingly slight. Since the Covid pandemic, those chances have dwindled further, according to new research.
A London School of Economics study comparing before and after the pandemic found that the proportion of women in the top 1% of earners in the industry has slipped to 19.4%, according to a report published Monday. This is 0.26 percentage points lower than before the outbreak.