金融服務業在性別平等方面進步緩慢

The financial services industry is making slow progress in promoting women to executive positions, according to two new reports published on Monday.

週一發佈的兩份新報告顯示，金融服務行業在將婦女提升至高管職位方面取得緩慢進展。

Globally, women make up only one-fifth of boards and 16 per cent of executive committees in financial services, according to management consulting firm Oliver Wyman’s Women in Financial Services report. This is only a slight improvement in both categories on the 2014 figures.

根據管理諮詢公司奧緯諮詢(Oliver Wyman)的報告《金融服務業的婦女》(Women in Financial Services)，從全球來說，婦女只佔了金融服務業董事會的五分之一和執行委員會的16%。相比2014年的數據，這兩個比例都只有微小提升。

Rebecca Emerson, UK head of Oliver Wyman, said: “There’s been slow progress in getting more women leaders in financial services. At the current rate it will take a further 30 years (by 2048) for executive committees to reach 30 per cent female representation.”

奧緯諮詢英國主管麗貝卡•埃默森(Rebecca Emerson)表示：“金融服務業在增加女性領導人方面進展緩慢。按照當前的增長速度，執行委員會還需要30年（到2048年）才能達到女性佔30%的程度。”

In UK financial services companies, only 14 per cent of executive committee members are female, and 23 per cent of board directors, according to a separate report on Monday from think-tank New Financial.

智庫新金融(New Financial)週一發佈的另一份報告顯示，在英國的金融服務公司，只有14%的執行委員會成員和23%的董事會董事是女性。

Yasmine Chinwala, partner at New Financial and author of the report, said: “The data clearly shows that without an active focus on improving gender balance in the executive pipeline, it just won’t happen. Companies need to work out for themselves why diversity is strategically important to their business.”

新金融合夥人、報告作者亞斯明•欽瓦勒(Yasmine Chinwala)表示：“數據清晰表明，如果不主動專注於改善高管培養管道中的性別平衡，平等就不會發生。企業必須自己想明白，爲什麼多元化對它們的業務有戰略上的重要性。”

Research suggests that 30 per cent is the level at which a minority’s voice comes to be heard. The 30% Club, a lobby group, initially focused on achieving a minimum of 30 per cent women on FTSE 100 boards, and has subsequently turned its focus to younger women in a push to improve the pipeline of women progressing to management positions.

研究似乎顯示，30%的比例是能讓少數人的聲音受到重視的最低水平。遊說團體“30%俱樂部”(30% Club)最初關注的是在富時100(FTSE 100)成分股董事會中實現最低30%的婦女比例。後來，該團體將注意力轉移至更年輕的婦女身上，試圖改善婦女晉升至管理崗位的培養管道。

According to New Financial, when women do sit on executive committees, they tend to be in support roles such as marketing or human resources, rather than in revenue-generating roles. This puts them at a disadvantage because executive committees tend to be dominated by people in the most senior and revenue-generating roles.

按照新金融的說法，當婦女真的進入執行委員會時，她們往往擔任銷售或人力資源等支持性的崗位，而不是創造營收的崗位。由於執委會往往由級別最高和創造營收的崗位主導，這令她們處於一種不利地位。

Ms Chinwala said: “If we want to see more women on executive committees and taking executive directorships, women need to be running business lines, not doing the work behind the scenes that make them run smoothly.”

欽瓦勒女士表示：“如果我們想看到更多婦女進入執委會和擔任執行董事，婦女需要掌管業務線，而不是從事那些幫助業務線順暢運營的幕後工作。”

Oliver Wyman’s report has several suggestions for improving the number of women at executive level. These range from structural changes such as putting in place strategies to improve the pipeline and making flexible working more available, to cultural ones such as encouraging men to take their share of parental leave and training people about unconscious bias.

奧緯諮詢的報告對增加高管級別的婦女人數提出了幾條建議，從結構化改革（制定改善培養管道的戰略和使靈活工作安排更易於獲得）到企業文化改革（鼓勵男性休親子假和針對下意識的偏見開展培訓）。