In our most recent survey, nearly nine out of 10 respondents said they don’t believe their employer has any specific targets in mind when it comes to gender diversity. Hopefully those people don’t work at Deutsche Bank, because they’d be dead wrong.
Speaking at a Women on Wall Street conference in New York, Chief Executive Jürgen Fitschen reiterated the German lender’s goal of promoting more female executives to the higher ranks, calling the bank’s recent efforts “just the beginning,” according to Financial News.
Those recent efforts include adding two females to its all-powerful executive committee – Sylvie Matherat, its new global head of government and regulatory affairs, and Nadine Faruque, the bank’s soon-to-be global head of compliance.
Deutsche Bank, which has taken heat for being rather slow in advancing more women to the top rungs of its organization, has been rather methodical, hiring strategically rather than making “cosmetic” changes – aka hiring for the sake of hiring, rather than on merit alone, Fitschen suggested.
But Deutsche Bank is standing by its pledge: to have women hold 25% of managing director and director positions and 35% of officer positions, like vice presidents, by 2018. Those numbers as of 2013 stood at 18.7% and 31.1%, according to Financial News.
Despite the criticism, Deutsche Bank’s numbers aren’t far off from its rivals. The most recent class of managing directors at Goldman, for example, was 20% women, down from 23% the previous year. Women only hold 17% of all board seats, a number that hasn’t budged in a decade. And female finance professionals earn 66% of their male counterparts – the worst ratio in any industry.
Fitschen urged women to do their part and “be bold” with their career ambitions. “Don’t wait for things to be delivered to you,” he said, according to the report.
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