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BernieforPres2016

(3,017 posts)
Sat Apr 9, 2016, 04:08 PM Apr 2016

If Hillary supporters have a problem with mostly white states

Why don't they pressure her to stop taking money from Wall Street, which is not only overwhelmingly white but also overwhelmingly male? And not just in the senior ranks, but even in the incoming analyst classes.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/09/30/wall-streets-young-bankers-are-still-mostly-white-and-male/?_r=0

<Wall Street’s gender diversity problem is not confined to the top executives. Even at the entry level, investment bank employees are overwhelmingly men, according to a report by Vettery, a start-up recruiting firm.

In this year’s class of first-year bankers – known on Wall Street as analysts – 77.5 percent are men, Vettery found. That level was flat from 2013.>

<Vettery, which seeks to use technology for recruiting in fields like private equity, said it collected its data from its network of about 100,000 financial workers who have signed up for the site. It also used regulatory filings and social sites like LinkedIn to extrapolate the information. The company did not verify its findings with the banks.

Vettery also collected information about the ethnic diversity of young bankers and the schools they came from. Over all, 65 percent of this year’s class of analysts are white, while 29 percent are Asian. Just 6 percent of the analysts are black or Hispanic, Vettery found.>

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