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Friday, 11 November 2016

Sallie Krawcheck on working in a male-dominated business world

The (other) gender gap: Wall Street veteran and co-founder of Ellevest, a digital investment platform for women, Sallie Krawcheck spoke with Sheelah Kolhatkar at The New Yorker TechFest on the gender investing gap and her previous experiences working in “an industry that does a lot more to service men than women.” Krawcheck’s experiences at Citigroup and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, which she implies were sexist work environments, inspired her to move on to actively help women take control of their financial lives, shattering myths that women are less risk-averse compared to men or less talented at maths. She says Ellevest “isn’t just a company, [but] a movement—to make women aware of this gap, and to give them a means in their control to close this gap” (runtime 30:31).

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