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Sallie Krawcheck: Why I’m Over Women’s ‘Empowerment’
Sallie Krawcheck, Fortune, 1/17/17
I really felt like we were making progress. The pundits were certain that our first female president was on the way, the U.S. women killed it at the 2016 Olympics, women were progressing at work by "leaning in" and “knowing their value,” and New York Magazine even declared single women as “our most potent political force.” My Twitter and Facebook feeds seemed to agree—both were filled with people convinced that progress on feminism was gaining steam.
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A Rare Corner of Finance Where Women Dominate
Alexandra Stevenson & Leslie Picker, The New York Times, 1/16/17
Once a year, a small group of executives who control trillions of dollars in American companies meet for lunch in Manhattan. Among the things they discuss: pushing for greater say in how companies are run. It is an elite gathering, but you will not see a single man in a suit in the room. The event, called the Women in Governance lunch, underscores a rare corner in finance where women dominate.
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A Trillion-Dollar Question: Why Don’t More Women Run Mutual Funds?
M.P. Dunleavey, The New York Times, 1/13/17
If you stop to consider who runs the thousands of mutual funds in America, you might conjure up an image of offices full of men. Then your brain might auto-correct to include some fund managers who are women.
How Point72’s highest-ranking woman worked her way up the ladder
Dan Butcher, eFinancial Careers, 1/9/17
Rachel D’Antonio is a managing director, the treasurer and the head of broker relations at Point72 Asset Management and the highest-ranking woman at the firm. D’Antonio is responsible for overseeing the family office’s equity financing, managing its credit counterparty relationships and its contract negotiations across products and counterparties. She is the firm’s main liaison with big banks.
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Deloitte CEO Cathy Engelbert: Yes, Women Can Have It All
Valentina Zarya, 1/2/17
Cathy Engelbert is the chief executive of a 75,000 person company yet still manages to attend most of her teenage daughter's lacrosse games. Ask the Deloitte chief how she manages to balance work and family—that well-worn cliché—and she references a piece of advice she received early in her career when she was deciding whether to remain in the workforce or leave it and stay home with her kids: "You can do it all as defined by you."
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