'Women' tagged blog posts in The latest news from Janet Hanson

Check out this article by Joseph Hooper at ELLE on September 14, 2009 (link at [elle.com]):

“I have this vivid memory of that Sunday,” Laurie Barnett, tells me over the disco music pumping into the midtown Manhattan restaurant where we meet, “when everyone figured out that Lehman was going bankrupt and Merrill was merging with Bank of America, and everything basically went to shit.” It’s hard to picture Laurie, 25, athletic and tomboyishly pretty, being a casualty of anything, but, as she’s eager to tell me, she was present at the …

Tuesday, May 19, 2009
The FT Calling for 30% Women on Boards
YES! It is another sign. Just today we are putting the final touches on a discussion paper that I have been working on for a very long time with the National Council for Research on Women looking at reasons and solutions for why there are so few women managing money. We pull the lens back on the issue in to a more general context on the lack of women in positions of leadership and power at financial services firms more generally and issue a “Call to Action.” One of our calls if for responsible institutions to adopt a voluntary "…