According to the 10th edition of Investec’s General Partner Trends survey zero percent of women said they would start their own firm if they left their current practice; this is down from 2.3 percent in the previous survey; women make up only 9.4 percent of senior positions in the industry and only 18 percent of the workforce according to Preqin; “We talk a lot about the progress that has been made, but the reality is that we’re not far enough that it’s ingrained in the DNA. It’s still a project, and this project can get sidelined, especially when it comes to gender pay gap reporting,” Deborah Sayagh, Investec Private Bank, said to Forbes; the survey also found 14.7 percent of women would rather start their own business outside the industry, compared to 11 percent of men; 8.2 percent of women would rather move out of financial services altogether, compared to 6.9 percent of men. Forbes
