Over the course of a year, the proportion of senior positions at private equity buyout firms globally that are being held by women has only increased from 8.7% to 9.0%, according to a study by Preqin.
For venture capital firms, the proportion has not increased and has held steady at 11.2%. Real estate and infrastructure fund managers have seen the most notable changes, with the proportion of female employees holding senior positions at real estate firms increasing by 1.5 percentage points and at infrastructure firms by 1.2 percentage points.
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From a geographical perspective, North America-based firms have seen the most notable rise in the proportion of senior positions being held by female employees, increasing by 0.7 percentage points over the last year.
While Asia-based fund managers retain the highest proportional representation of women in high-level roles, the proportion has actually fallen since March 2013 from 12.8% to 11.8%. European managers and those in regions outside of North America,
Europe and Asia have seen negligible changes, both maintaining roughly 10% of senior roles held by women.
Small firms, those with one to five senior employees, have had a steadily declining proportion of high-level roles held by women, down from 9.2% in 2012 to 8.4% in 2014. At larger firms, however, the proportion has been steadily increasing.
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By GlobalDataFirms with 11 to 20 senior employees, woman account for 11.5% of senior roles as of March 2014 compared to 9.3% in March 2012. For firms with more than 20 senior employees, the proportion has not changed from 11.9% last year.
