Just under a third of North American men working in IR have come from corporate finance directly before joining the IR team. This compares with one in five women, with more women having come from other corporate backgrounds.
More men than women in North American IR come from a capital markets background, with two fifths having moved over from the investment side, compared with just 27 percent of women. North American women are more likely to have come from other backgrounds or to have always worked in IR.
