It’s no secret that the financial services industry has always been dominated by men. A glance through Financial News’s own FN100 list of the most influential people in European financial markets yields just five women, an even lower hit rate than the 12.5% female representation on FTSE 100 company boards.

The glass ceiling is very much in place, according to Financial News's fourth annual Women in Finance survey, which gauged the opinions of women working in financial markets on how their gender impacted them in the workplace.