Dame Helena Morrissey, the celebrated activist for equality in the workplace, has revealed that she was passed over for a promotion at Schroders, the UK’s second-largest listed asset manager, because she took five months’ leave to have a baby.
In her new book, A Good Time to be a Girl, the mother-of-nine and head of personal investing at Legal & General Investment Management, disclosed that she left Schroders in 1994 because her manager at the time told Dame Helena that her commitment had come into question due to the arrival of her new child.
