{"id":274,"date":"2016-03-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fbf.fr\/en\/2016\/03\/08\/banking-attracts-and-promotes-women\/"},"modified":"2021-09-13T17:02:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T15:02:49","slug":"banking-attracts-and-promotes-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fbf.fr\/en\/banking-attracts-and-promotes-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Banking attracts and promotes women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Banks have committed to achieving parity. Positive action has borne fruit. In 2014 more than 46% of managers were women.<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Banking has a predominantly female workforce. Women make up 57.1% of all staff and 46% of managers<sup>(1)<\/sup>. This is a high score: by way of comparison, women make up only 29.6% of managers at the top 60 French companies according to the Skema Observatory which monitors women in the workforce<sup>(2)<\/sup>. The banking profession is beating its own targets in this respect. The 2011 sector salary agreement set a target of 44% women managers in banks by the end of 2014. Mobilising everyone in the industry meant we were able to go beyond this threshold. <br> <br><b>Attractive career prospects <br><\/b> <br>In the banking sector in 2014, more than half of new hires were women, with an average age of 30. A quarter were qualified to at least master&#8217;s degree level. Nearly one in five women worked part-time &#8211; usually doing at least 80% of standard working hours &#8211; compared to just over 2% of men. <br> <br>The banking sector offers women attractive career opportunities, both in pay and career prospects. More than 60% of those promoted in 2014 were women. <br> <br>Banks also have a head start when it comes to women in the very top posts. In 2015, the average proportion of women on boards of directors or supervisory boards was 42.6% at the big listed French banks in the CAC 40, compared to 34.6% for all CAC 40 companies <sup>(3)<\/sup>.<br> <br>The banking sector is, then, ahead of the Cop\u00e9-Zimmermann target which requires CAC 40 companies to have 40% of female members on both boards by January 1, 2017. <br>  <br><sup>(1) <\/sup><i>Annual AFB survey of member banks. Data at 31\/12\/2014.<\/i> <br><sup>(2)<\/sup> <i>2015 report.<\/i> <br><sup>(3)<\/sup> <i>Ethics &amp; Boards, January 2016.<\/i> <br>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fbf.fr\/fr\/la-banque-un-secteur-feminise-et-attractif\/\">La banque, un secteur f\u00e9minis\u00e9 et attractif<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banks have committed to achieving parity. Positive action has borne fruit. In 2014 more than 46% of managers were women. Banking has a predominantly female workforce. Women make up 57.1% of all staff and 46% of managers(1). This is a high score: by way of comparison, women make up only 29.6% of managers at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","views":8553,"viewed_at":"1778490115"},"categories":[595,618,103,4,622,13],"tags":[224],"class_list":["post-274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-french-banking-industry","category-rubric-key-facts-and-figures","category-key-figures","category-rubric-newsroom","category-other-studies","category-overview","tag-french-banking-industry"],"yoast_head":"<title>Banking attracts and promotes women - Overview - The French Banking Federation (FBF)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Banks have committed to achieving parity. Positive action has borne fruit. 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