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The $2.5 trillion investor behind a statue of a girl on Wall Street is tackling its own gender problem

The Wall Street girl statue made waves. What is less known is that State Street Global Advisors has a gender problem of its own, like much of the industry.

State Street installed a statue of a girl on March 7 in front of the Wall Street bull in downtown Manhattan.

A statue of a little girl standing defiantly in front of Wall Street's iconic bull caught the public's imagination this week.

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State Street is far from alone – w by some measures, the company is ahead of its peers.

Here are some stats, according to a Morningstar study from last year.

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The investment management industry is "basically forgoing the talents of half of our population," Heinel told Business Insider.

The company tries to keep interviews to facts- and skills-based questions to remove

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