{"id":69,"date":"2012-11-18T15:12:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T22:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/?p=69"},"modified":"2012-11-19T10:37:53","modified_gmt":"2012-11-19T17:37:53","slug":"4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/2012\/11\/18\/4\/","title":{"rendered":"The Women of Wall Street: Wait, where are they?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_128\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/files\/2012\/11\/990c67250a558be0e46340d7ddb348571.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128\" title=\"990c67250a558be0e46340d7ddb34857\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/files\/2012\/11\/990c67250a558be0e46340d7ddb348571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/files\/2012\/11\/990c67250a558be0e46340d7ddb348571.jpg 448w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/files\/2012\/11\/990c67250a558be0e46340d7ddb348571-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-128\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The youngest CEO of a Fortune 500 Company at 37 years old and a new mom since September, Marissa Mayer knows no limits while heading Yahoo!.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In response to my fellow classmate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/bryback\/2012\/11\/18\/business-is-womens-business-too\/\">Braxton Ryback<\/a>\u2019s post on the female influence in business, I would like to draw further discussion on women in financial services and the gender disparity in the business workplace. To start with the facts:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>Only 3% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women<\/li>\n<li>Men are paid approximately 25% more than women for the same work<\/li>\n<li>The 50 highest-paid executives in the U.S. are all men<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2012\/07\/why-women-still-cant-have-it-all\/309020\/\">Anne-Marie Salughter<\/a>\u00a0points out the crucial issues many women face of seeking balance and advancement, many women\u2014despite consistently performing at the highest level\u2014are turned down at times for promotion. Women often face gender-based stereotypes particularly in intense and fast-paced job industries, such as in finance. Yet a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglasshammer.com\/news\/2012\/06\/27\/why-we-need-women-in-business-leadership-now\/\">Catalyst study<\/a>\u00a0reveals that companies who have at least three women on their board of directors have 16% higher financial results.<\/p>\n<p>Braxton mentions how \u201cwomen bring a unique perspective, adding spice and variation.\u201d John Keyser, Founder of Common Sense Leadership, believes women are simply \u201cmore dutiful and thoughtful in preparing their work\u201d and then draws a comparison between how the women he works with tend to start work early and turn it in on time as opposed to the men who pulls it together, \u201cturning in an inferior product.\u201d\u00a0 While these beliefs may be true in certain circumstances, I do not believe differences between the female and male gender should be the focus of the debate. It is not about demeaning the male gender and enforce stereotypes on the male work ethic (if there even is one) and promoting a female-dominated world but rather, about equality and implementing gender-balanced ratios in the boardroom,\u00a0eliminating\u00a0discrimination against and stigmatization behind the female force and ultimately providing equal opportunity in a more just society.<\/p>\n<p>The women of Wall Street: Currently lacking in numbers, but a definite driving force for success.<\/p>\n<p>Image via:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.ixwebhosting.mobi\/2012\/07\/31\/14880.html\">http:\/\/news.ixwebhosting.mobi\/2012\/07\/31\/14880.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to my fellow classmate\u00a0Braxton Ryback\u2019s post on the female influence in business, I would like to draw further discussion on women in financial services and the gender disparity in the business workplace. To start with the facts: Only 3% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women Men are paid approximately 25% more than women [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14576,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jenniferliu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}