Support for government efforts to promote equal treatment of women in the workplace was greatest among women with less than two years’ experience in finance, according to Financial News's latest Women in Finance Survey.

These 20-something respondents - the latest cohort of Millennials, born between 1980 and early 2000s, to enter the financial industry - were the keenest advocates, among all age groups surveyed, of the UK government's plans to introduce gender pay gap reporting and its proposal to link senior managers' compensation to diversity targets.