Reboot - Gender equity in financial services: The yellow brick road

I had originally planned to be an intellectual property lawyer, but ended up falling into asset management. As the first person in my family to go into financial services, I initially had a steep learning curve. Yet as I began to find my feet and navigate career progression and development and corporate culture, I began to realise two things: Others were given opportunities that I had to fight for and was still refused, and the industry was still not willing to recognise me as a black woman. Although over the years the topic of increased female representation and getting more women in...