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Male Investors More Likely To ‘Freak Out,’ MIT Study Finds The worst culprits when it comes to panicky selloffs? “Investors who are male or above the age of 45 or married, or have more dependents, or who self-identify as having excellent investment experience or knowledge tend to freak out with greater frequency,” the authors said. The Facebook Whistleblower, Frances Haugen, Says She Wants to Fix the Compa...

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Science was the first academic subject I stopped pursuing, and I regret it. In high school, the only science options senior year were A.P. and required an extra hour for the lab work. I had other priorities, including a semi-professional dance career that took up a lot of my time. In college, I took the bare minimum of two science courses and chose biology and astronomy. Physics and chemistry were never my strong suit. So...

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Women Still Do More of the Housework. Here’s How to Share the Load The women are burned out, stressed and full of rage about unequal distribution of domestic labor, she says. The men are finally starting to wake up to the problem. “There’s no denying it anymore,” Ms. Rodsky says. Many male partners have spent much of the past 18 months working from home, with a full view of labor that was formerly invisible. Yelle...

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I’ve always wanted to do pro bono financial planning work, but never found the right opportunity. Local FPA chapters will host walk-in clinics which were never my thing. I developed a financial literacy program during my active years in the Junior League, but I wasn’t involved in launching or teaching the courses. I have taken on clients who are below my minimum, but that doesn’t really count. So in earl...

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Tech Women #ChoosePossibility I reached out to about 100 women tech entrepreneurs across the country and asked for their help in shaping this perspective. Through a simple survey, coupled with public data collection, a picture starts to emerge of some of the women who are and have been building tech companies successfully in the Valley for the last 20 years. 1 change that can fix the VC funding crisis for women founders S...

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Alpha Female 2021: Just 11.8% of portfolio managers are women… and that’s an improvement It is based on Citywire’s database of 16,353 portfolio managers who run active mutual funds, or their equivalents, around the world. It found that globally 1,932, or 11.8%, of these managers are women, up from 11% in 2020. For the US alone, the percentage of female fund managers is 10%. This is an improvement on 9% in the 2020 ...

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After a few conversations with readers this week, I realized that I never wrote a finale to our Hurricane Ida experience. My apologies, this is my brain on a hurricane. The personal news is that we were fine. Our house suffered no damage or water intrusion. We were able to confirm this late in the day after the storm. A friend was able to empty our fridge before it got bad, and he saved a lot of our freezer items with a g...

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The stock market isn’t making news right now. The news this morning was dominated by a nuclear deal between the US, UK, and Australia, the chaos in Afghanistan, and the first civilian spaceflight by SpaceX. There’s a lot going on in the world, and the stock market is boring. I love it this way. In the early ’90s, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) began calculating the implied volatility of the s...

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How one ETF up nearly 20% this year promotes female empowerment “I hate to use the word ‘guarantee,’ but we certainly provide some assurance that … the over 200 companies that are involved in the ETF are doing the right thing to empower women,” Herrera said. “As we know, companies that have a focus this intently on their workforce tend to be very well run.” The Privilege To Turn Off (Joelle Boneparth) I ...

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On this special episode of This Week in Women LIVE, I spoke to Stacey Vanek Smith (yes, the one from NPR’s The Indicator!) about her new book, Machiavelli For Women, which is out this week. Stacey has written the most practical book of advice for women seeking success in the workplace, and she does it using wisdom from Machiavelli’s The Prince. Remember The Prince? “It is better to be feared than loved&#...

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This Week in Women LIVE is Back! My guest on Monday will be Joelle Boneparth, an assistant general counsel for a Fortune 100 company, an author, and a mother of two little girls. I’ve been hooked on Joelle’s weekly newsletter, Our Tiny Rebellions, since she started it earlier this year, and I can’t wait to ask her about it. Tune in LIVE on Instagram. Monday, August 16th at 4 pm ET / 1 pm PT.  I’ve...

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Can SPACs Give Women A Way Into Investment, The C-Suite And Boards? Women have been underrepresented as capital allocators, in the C suite, at the board level, and as investors. “Having your own SPAC [special purpose acquisition company] is a chance to rewrite corporate America,” said Liu. “It’s an opportunity to invest in women at the helm of publicly owned companies, build diverse corporate board...

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Why women are the MBA minority and how that could change While law school and medical school have achieved the 50% mark for women enrolled, that has yet to happen in MBA programs. The Forté Foundation, a nonprofit focused on gender parity in business, reports that among its 52 member schools, just 38.5% of full-time MBA students are women. This reflects an undeniable gender gap, but also points to some progress: As...

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Louisiana teen Zaila Avant-garde correctly spells ‘Murraya’ to win Scripps National Spelling Bee Zaila knew she would be the first African American winner of the bee. She knew Black kids around the country were watching Thursday night’s ESPN2 telecast, waiting to be inspired and hoping to follow in the footsteps of someone who looked like them. She even thought of MacNolia Cox, who in 1936 became the fir...

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For over a year, I’ve been kicking around a blog idea in my head that I just couldn’t figure out how to write. The premise – America has a math problem. That math problem became painfully clear to me during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. I cringed each time I heard a misguided quip about how dangerous the virus was (or wasn’t) depending on the commenter’s news source. I clutched my ...

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The female CEOs on this year’s Fortune 500 just broke three all-time records While these achievements are notable, they’re only part of the story. Having a total of 41 women chief executives amounts to female leadership for just 8.1% of the Fortune 500. Says Lorraine Hariton, CEO of the gender equality organization Catalyst, “We need to tell the optimistic—but not exuberant— story around what’s h...

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Return to Office? Some Women of Color Aren’t Ready “This was the first year that I haven’t had my hair commented on and touched without permission in my professional life,” she said. “I actually like not having to go into the office and be constantly reminded that I’m the only Black woman there.” Simone Biles Tackles Her Trolls In New, Empowering Short Film Series From SK-II Biles’s episode is just one wit...

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