The alternatives industry inches toward gender parity Monday, March 08, 2021 Opalesque Industry Update - At the end of 2020, over a fifth (20.3%) of people working in the alternative assets were women, compared to 19.7%
at the end of 2019, according to data provider Preqin.
Venture capital had the highest female representation in the workforce at 21.8%. Real estate was
the global asset class with the least gender diversity, with females compromising 18% of positions.
Regionally, the
highest representation of female employees was in European natural resources firms (23.3%) and the lowest in Asian
real estate firms (16.6%).
Despite some progress, women fill 12.2% of senior roles in the alternatives industry and