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Under 10% of top City dealmakers are women: ‘It’s still very testosterone-fuelled’

One senior female dealmaker tells FN: ‘Once you have women at the top, the rest will follow very naturally, I’m confident of that’

Under 10% of top City dealmakers are women: ‘It’s still very testosterone-fuelled’
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The City’s upper ranks remain a boy’s club. The vast majority of senior dealmakers in London are men, Financial News can reveal, showing just how slow the world’s largest investment banks have been to promote women to key, high-paying jobs.  

Just 9% of 650 top investment bankers in London are female, according to exclusive analysis of the upper ranks of finance giants in the City by specialist headhunters for FN.

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