One of our coaching clients, a VP at a consumer products company, was abruptly silenced when she tried to make a point at a recent executive committee meeting. The problem? She was passionate — and it didn’t go over well. […]
Tag: Women
Even Women Think Men Are More Creative
The Research: Devon Proudfoot, a PhD candidate at Duke, and her colleagues Aaron Kay and Christy Koval performed several studies of gender bias and creativity. In one, subjects rated how central certain personality characteristics were to creativity. The results showed […]
Women in finance are doing it all wrong
Where are the women? Not on the trading floor (even though they make better traders). Not in hedge funds. Not in private equity, and not in investment banking generally. Unsurprisingly, they are also rarely to be found on the boards of financial […]
The surprising profile of the perfect hedge fund manager
What does a talented hedge fund manager look like? Is it a 28 year-old man with a bank of computer screens and a thing for protein shakes? Is it a 59 year-old man who became attached to a pet pig? Is […]
The real reason women don’t do financial services
Where are all the senior women in banking? At Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, it’s typical for fewer than 20% of managing director (MD) promotions to involve women. At Nomura, women only account for 30% of employees overall in Europe. […]
How Women Are ‘Freezing’ The Biological Clock
For Jenine McKay, motherhood was the happy ending to a fairy tale that never actually happened. A few years ago, the then-39-year-old London-based events planner found herself suddenly single and desperate for a baby. Her live-in relationship of 15 years […]