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&lt;p&gt;October is &lt;span style=&quot;text-decoration: line-through;&quot;&gt;Carl Paladino&lt;/span&gt; National Diversity Month, so we decided to go back to the data we collected in our most recent Banking Survey and see if we couldn&#39;t find a few fitting pieces to offer up in honor of these holy 31 days.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;First, what we found, unsurprisingly, is a marked lack of women in the banking workplace. Somewhat surprising, though, was that this lack of women increases as you ascend the banking org chart. That is, as you&#39;ll see in the graphic below, of those bankers surveyed, 26 percent identified themselves as women. But of those surveyed who hold executive positions, only 11 percent identified themselves as women. The takeaway here is that females are still underrepresented at the top financial firms, and are severely underrepresented in the higher ranks at the top financial firms.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;embeddedObject&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.vault.com/VCM/blogs/Bankingdiversity-gender.png&quot; alt=&quot;Vault.com 2010 banking diversity gender&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Second, we found (again unsurprisingly) that the ethnic group that accounts for most (almost three quarters) of the entire banking industry is none other than the white male.  However, interestingly, we found that the white male is far better represented in the banking industry than it is in the general population&amp;mdash;almost 10 percent greater, as you can see in the graphic below. Asians, the second largest ethnic group in banking, are also far better represented in the industry than they are in the wider U.S. population&amp;mdash;about three times greater, in fact. On the other side of this diversity story, Hispanic individuals and African-Americans are severely underrepresented in the banking industry versus their representation in the wider population.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;embeddedObject&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.vault.com/VCM/blogs/Bankingdiversity-Ethnicity.png&quot; alt=&quot;Vault.com ethnic diversity of finance industry 2010&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Third, we found a large lack of openly gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender individuals in banking. Given that banking is perhaps one of, if not the most politically conservative industries in the United States, this might not come as that much of a surprise. But still, you would think that this lack might not be as significant as the pie chart below indicates: just 1 percent of the more than 2,200 bankers surveyed had identified themselves as an openly GLBT individual. Which begs the question: are GLBT individuals not welcome into the banking industry, not interested in the industry, or both?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;embeddedObject&quot; style=&quot;display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.vault.com/VCM/blogs/Bankingdiversity-GLBT.png&quot; alt=&quot;Vault.com 2010 banking diversity GLBT&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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