In October 2007 Diaz Research worked with BCSWomen, a membership group operating within the UK’s professional body for IT, the British Computer Society, to conduct a survey of the views that women in IT have about invest- ment banking as a place to work. This note summarizes the findings, and the responses of a group of HR managers who look after the IT communities in eight of the biggest global investment banks operating in London.
At just 51 responses these results cannot be taken as definitive but they never- the less provide some interesting pointers to ways of improving the success rate in recruiting IT women into investment banks. And there are some useful clues for women who might be curious about careers in investment banking IT.
