Around five years ago Becci McKinley-Rowe, head of UK equity sales at Morgan Stanley, spoke to a group of 18-year-old women at a careers event who told her that they would never pick trading as a career. Instead they wanted to go into law or management consulting.
“The penny dropped. They had already made up their minds,” McKinley-Rowe said, adding that they had already formed a negative picture of what they would experience.