![]() I've spoken to a couple of senior women who have 20+ years in the industry, and they said you can make it work if you want to. ![]() By the time I want a family, I hope this job will be a little bit easier. None of my female friends in finance have children. When I speak to my male friends in banking, it's much more about earning more than the rest. Information is power! I think we have a slightly different attitude to money than the men in the industry, though - for us, it's about what we can buy with the money we earn. We talk among ourselves about experiences and share information about our pay so that we know what we should be aiming for. I also have plenty of young female friends in banking. My male MD encourages me to work on those deals because he can see that the female clients respond better to me. We're starting to get more female clients and when I work with them there's a natural bond. When it comes to my year-end appraisal, everyone appraising me is a white male in his 40s or 50s. The bad thing is that this is still a male-dominated industry. If you can generate the revenues and you are doing a good job, no one cares about your gender here. ![]() It sounds like a truism, but the good thing for women about banking jobs is that they are all about money. This is an industry that I love and is one in which I've spent all my career. I'm a vice president (VP) at a boutique investment bank.
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