Publisher's Synopsis
The Equal Opportunities Commission regularly receives complaints from women about their treatment by financial institutions. In 1987 it commissioned a two-stage research programme to assess the extent to which there is apparent or perceived sex discrimination against women by financial institutions and to investigate the causes of dissatisfaction in such cases.;The research did not show any significant level of overt discrimination against women, with only 0.6% of a a nationally representative sample of women claiming to have experienced any form of sex discrimination from any financial institution during the previous three years.;However, women are more likely to perceive discrimination against them as being due to wealth-related factors, which may represent a form of indirect discrimination. This and other topics are explored in the preface to the report, written by the Equal Opportunities Commission, which provides a useful overview of the subject.
