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You would hope, but sadly not much as changed. There have been numerous experiments lately where someone created identical mid-career LinkedIn profiles one posing as a man and another as a woman.

The male profile always gets far more views and recruiter messages.

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>You would hope, but sadly not much as changed.

The finance industry has a terrible reputation for blatant sexism for example however it's been proven categorically by the world largest finance recruitment firm that over the last 70 years the number of females in executive positions in finance is steadily and blatantly improving.

Their studies also prove that there is still a gender issue in finance but claiming that not much has changed is categorically wrong.

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