The more your senior managers and male colleagues engage with your employer’s diversity group, the more effective it will be. That is the view of respondents offering their feedback on the groups available to them at their institutions.

Although only 3% of respondents said their firm's diversity programme or women's network had made an "essential contribution" to their career progression, about a third said such groups had given them a useful way to network. A further 4% said they had found these initiatives to be "helpful in some other way". Of these, around 40% said male counterparts and senior colleagues engaged with the initiatives on offer, while about a quarter said senior managers attended their diversity groups.