{"id":14786,"date":"2015-11-03T10:30:51","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T10:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discovery-graduates.com\/?p=3276"},"modified":"2015-11-03T10:30:51","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T10:30:51","slug":"career-prospects-for-women-in-finance-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/career-prospects-for-women-in-finance-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"Career prospects for women in finance soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discovery-graduates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Job-opportunities-620.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2681 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.discovery-graduates.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Job-opportunities-620.jpg\" alt=\"Job-opportunities-620\" width=\"620\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Female graduates looking forward to joining the finance and accounting sector will be pleased to hear that it\u2019s been found to be the perfect choice for aspiring female CEOs.<\/p>\n<p>A new report from Robert Half UK found that 64% of UK finance directors believe there are now more opportunities for women to be promoted in their finance and accounting roles than there were 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aspiring female accountants<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a further 87% have said that women now have a better chance of landing the Chief Executive role than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, a report by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) revealed that female students in the accountancy profession have remained the same between 2010 and 2014, at 50%. However, the number of female qualified accountants is just 36% &#8211; ultimately suggesting that while there are equal numbers studying the profession at university, more men remain within the sector.<\/p>\n<p>However, this figure has increased from 34% in 2010 to 36% in 2014, which is great news for aspiring female accountants.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, female finance chiefs remain a little more positive than their male counterparts about the opportunities for women to progress in the industry. In fact, 67% of finance directors believe there are more opportunities than there were 10 years ago, compared to 61% of men.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A positive view<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A further 92% of female finance directors also believe that women have a great chance of becoming board members \u2013 compared to 83% of men.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, finance directors in London and the South East were also found to be more positive about the opportunities for female graduates, with 75% saying they believe women have a better chance of making their way up the career ladder in accounting; compared to 65% in the South West and Wales, 65% in the north of England and 60% in the Midlands.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Sheridan, Managing Director at Robert Half UK, said that firms should be creating a diverse talent pool and this means creating more career opportunities for women in the finance sector.<\/p>\n<p>This change won\u2019t only improve career prospects for women, but the whole economy, he added.<\/p>\n<p>For graduate roles in finance and accounting contact Discovery Graduates today!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SOURCE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onrec.com\/news\/statistics-and-trends\/career-prospects-improving-for-women-in-finance-and-accounting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.onrec.com\/news\/statistics-and-trends\/career-prospects-improving-for-women-in-finance-and-accounting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Female graduates looking forward to joining the finance and accounting sector will be pleased to hear that it\u2019s been found to be the perfect choice for aspiring female CEOs. A new report from Robert Half UK found that 64% of UK finance directors believe there are now more opportunities for women to be promoted in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graduate-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/discovery-adr.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}