Women making progress, but gender gap remains
March 10, 2014 by Warren S. Hersch
While the financial service industry has made much progress in its treatment of female employees and clients, a gender equality gap remains, according to a new BMO Wealth Management study.
Released to mark International Women’s Day on March 8, the study finds that 83 percent of Canadians (including 79 percent of women) believe that the financial services sector has become more equitable in the way it treats female employees compared to their male counterparts in the last 20 years.
Further, 85 percent (83 percent women) think that the industry is doing a better job of treating female clients more equitably over this same period.