Societal expectations hindering greater parity in parenting roles

DIVERSITY and more specifically gender diversity has featured in the landscape of Human Resources (HR) of large companies such as Deutsche Bank for more than a decade. It continues to be at the forefront, but challenging social expectations of gender roles in parenting is fundamental to making real progress.

We hire roughly an equal number of men and women in our graduate intakes. We have roughly the same number of men and women at junior levels, and women often progress faster at the earlier stages of their career. However, tackling the fallout rate that comes at a crucial stage of an individuals' career - say, making the step from vice-president…