Graduate job research reveals gender imbalance

Recent research has shown that strategies for companies to improve their gender balance for graduate jobs aren’t working.

Although approximately three in five graduates are female (58.7%), the share of female graduates joining Association of Graduate Recruiters (AGR) programmes only averages to 41.6%.

Despite 62.8% of firms currently having a strategy in place to improve their gender balance, the share of females has still not improved in the last five years.

Stephen Isherwood is the Chief Executive of AGR. He said: “Gender diversity is an issue which requires more of our attention.”