2022 Annual Report 21 30% Club France Investor Group do it!”). She also highlighted her efforts in this area via past leadership role as the chair of the CFA U.K. women’s network as well as more recently her being a founding partner of the Bloomberg Buy Side women’s network in Asia. Both organizations target the support of women in asset management via mentoring, engagement, and thought leadership. Another point that she believes is important is confidence. She believes it is one of the truly critical skills that women need to push through the glass ceiling. Even when women have 90% of the skills required for a new job, they often shy away f rom putting their hat in the ring as they believe anything short of 100% would be doomed to fail. This is a stark contrast to many male colleagues and can regrettably set women apart f rom having an opportunity to compete. Finally, to accelerate change, Virginie said that it would be a big step forward if financial companies were to set up diversity and inclusion codes and be more demanding f rom the search firms they partner with to source talent and demand diverse candidate pools to help accelerate pipeline challenges.
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