London's financial districts hiring more women

London

LONDON'S financial services industry is leaving its "old boy's club" image behind, after sharply increasing recruitment of women and overseas staff over the last year, research showed on Monday.

Over the past year the number of women working in London's the City and Canary Wharf financial districts shot up by nearly half to 29 per cent of the total workforce of nearly 520,000, according to financial services recruitment firm Astbury Marsden.