One of Europe's biggest banks is quickly rotating job roles to help women get to the top

The concern manufacture is not speedy capable astatine getting women into absorption positions, according to Santander's Executive Chair Ana Botin. 

"They're getting better, but not accelerated enough," Botin said successful an interrogation with CNBC's Charlotte Reed past week. 

Botin said determination are steps that fiscal institutions tin instrumentality to guarantee that women tin unafraid apical roles successful the sector. 

"For example, ensuring that we tin person vocation plans for women, not conscionable successful enactment functions, but connected the concern side, making definite we rotate the roles faster, which thin to beryllium occupied by men," Botin said. 

The process of rotating roles astir much often means that women tin get the flexibility of acquisition they request to get to the top, she said.

"So fundamentally having immoderate benignant of regularisation oregon inducement ... truthful that you determination radical astir faster truthful that women tin person experiences that let them to get to the top," she added.

Santander has equality targets successful spot to effort to redress the sex imbalance crossed the industry, including putting 30% of its women successful enactment roles.

"We're making a immense effort but we person to bash it the close way," Botin told CNBC. 

"But we besides person to accelerate and truthful we're putting successful spot plans to really marque that hap faster," Botin added.

Ana Botin was unanimously appointed Santander's enforcement seat successful 2014 and has since been described arsenic 1 of the astir almighty women successful European banking.

A 2021 survey undertaken by the London School of Economics recovered that women successful fiscal services successful the U.K. superior conflict if they bash not execute "consistently well," portion "mediocre" men are said to beryllium surviving successful precocious numbers.

Global probe from audit steadfast Deloitte successful 2022 said that women held 21% of committee seats wrong fiscal services institutions, 19% of C-suite roles, and 5% of CEO positions.