I’m a developer in an investment bank. I’ve worked in finance since I left university five years ago and I don’t plan to work in another industry, but I would like to call out and try to change some of […]
Tag: Women
COVID nightmares for women in hedge funds
Working in an investment role for a hedge fund during a time of family strife is a challenge irrespective of your gender. – In 2013, Paul Tudor Jones controversially claimed that hedge fund managers’ returns fall by 10-20% when they’re going […]
Women’s Career Trajectories Can Be a Model for an Aging Workforce
Summary. Especially as life spans and careers get longer, we hear more about careers with two phases: A steady, effortful climb upward towards commercial success, and then a second phase dedicated to service to others. But for many women, the […]
Research: Only 10% of Joint Venture Board Members Are Women
The boards of public companies are watched carefully to see how they’re doing on gender parity and other measures of diversity. Joint venture boards get far less scrutiny — and it shows. According to our latest research, which covered more […]
“Banks only hire saleswomen for their looks”
This is going to sound sexist, but I attend a lot of conferences and it always disillusions me when I see stands filled with attractive women whose main purpose seems to be gaining the attention of the opposite sex for […]
Women work in compliance, men work in trading
It’s long been a cliché that if you look around the trading floor of an investment bank, you’ll see a lot more men than women – in trading roles, at least. However, if you look at the compliance function that polices […]
Senior bankers need Paris and Frankfurt apartments, urgently. Women are more difficult clients
It appears that two of the investment banking industry’s biggest headaches are about to interact with each other to create a third, even worse pain. Everyone was already worried about the possibility of a “second wave” of coronavirus infections, as […]
Inside the spaces where male bankers network alone
For bankers in London and New York, COVID-19 has changed everything when it comes to after-work networking and client entertainment. – An expensed night out looks far less appealing when it risks a life-changing virus. This could be a positive thing: those who’ve played […]
Why WFH Isn’t Necessarily Good for Women
By altering attitudes toward working from home (WFH), COVID-19 may have forever changed the way we work. According to a new MIT study, half of those who were employed before the pandemic are now working remotely. As company executives see for […]
Women bankers worry that lockdown will affect their bonuses
With some banking teams (mainly in markets) looking at record revenues, and some (mainly in advisory) heading for a year to forget, the Q2 results stage doesn’t necessarily seem too early in the year to start worrying about the 2020 […]