Women Leaders Progressing Slowly in Financial Firms, Study Shows

  • Occupy 16% of firms’ executive committees: Oliver Wyman
  • Representation at that level won’t hit 30% until 2048
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Progress in boosting the representation of women in senior financial-industry roles has been slow, according to management consultancy Oliver Wyman.

Women globally occupied 20 percent of board-level positions in financial firms at the beginning of 2016, up from 18 percent in 2013, according to a report released Monday, which was based on an analysis of 381 financial services organizations in 32 countries. Some 16 percent of the companies’ executive-committee members were women, up from 14 percent in 2013, the study showed.