Commentary

Enthusiasm is waning for International Women’s Day, but finance needs to make it count

Banks can't let fatigue set in on efforts to improve gender equality

Financial institutions need to harness the potential of events like IWD
Financial institutions need to harness the potential of events like IWD

Tina Fordham, the founder of Fordham Global Foresight, was previously chief political analyst at Citigroup. She has also been named one of Financial News's 100 Most Influential Women in Finance.

International Women's Day, observed on 8 March and dating back to the early 20th-century battle for women's suffrage, has shot from relative obscurity in the West to becoming a mainstay in the corporate diversity calendar.

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