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Swedish House of Finance premieres a short video entitled "Sidelined in Science" that sheds light on the science behind the obstacles that women encounter in academia, as well as some solutions that can help overcome some of the hurdles.

In celebration of the International Women’s Day 2022, we highlight a study on public attention on gender equality and gender diversity in corporate leadership.

How do we include talent that is outside our networks? Read the two interviews (in Swedish) with Bo Becker in Dagens Industri about inclusion and diversity in the Swedish financial industry.

How can we level the playing field for men and women interested in a career in finance? And what does the situation look like in the finance industry in the Nordics right now?

International Women’s Day, on March 8, is a global celebration of women’s achievements. The theme for this year’s campaign is each for equal.

Sweden and Norway have the highest representation of women on Executive Committees globally according to the Oliver Wyman report Women in Financial Services 2016. However, global data shows that women face a mid-career conflict and are 20 to 30 percent more likely to leave their employer than their peers in other industries.

On 15 September 2016, the event Women’s Finance Day brought together female students at the Stockholm School of Economics with some of the most prestigious workplaces in finance, in Sweden and abroad.

Recruiting and retaining women has been an issue for the Private Equity-industry for a long time. On 8 June the network Women in P/E met at a breakfast meeting at the Swedish House of Finance to share experiences and discuss how to attract more women to Private Equity.

In his doctoral dissertation, Kristoffer Milonas finds that family firms, where the controlling family has more daughters, perform better on an environmental dimension.