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The ongoing women problem at strategy firm Bain
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Strategy consultancy Bain will not budge from its “rigorous” selection process that led to the appointment of three times more men than women to management in the past seven years, says managing partner Peter Stumbles.
Despite Bain being a vocal advocate for more female leaders in business, fewer than a quarter of its full-time managers are women, the lowest proportion of the three strategy consulting firms, an analysis by
The Australian Financial Review shows.
Bain & Company ANZ managing partner Peter Stumbles.
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Bain’s slow progress towards management diversity is despite most of its junior ranks being staffed by female consultants and the firm’s continued spruiking of the benefits of gender equity in the workplace to staff, potential employees and clients.