{"id":36001,"date":"2017-12-02T19:05:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-03T00:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=36001"},"modified":"2017-12-02T19:05:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T00:05:38","slug":"the-men-who-make-life-miserable-for-women-on-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=36001","title":{"rendered":"The men who make life miserable for women on Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

Also today in the Times, Sallie Krawcheck, a celebrated and unusually successful Wall Street investment person, writes about what it was like for her starting out in a field notorious for crude male behavior, in a solid essay about the cost of devaluing women.<\/a><\/p>\n

Since I’ve known a few people in the world of high finance, I was not surprised at Krawcheck’s personal Wall Street trial by assaultive fire. Nor will you be, I’m sure.<\/p>\n

But here’s where I started smiling. She wrote (my bolding and my blown up type):<\/p>\n

One might argue that start-ups run by men just happen to deliver the highest possible returns<\/strong>. The mythology around the industry bolsters this, with venture capitalists boasting of investing in Facebook practically out of the dorm room.<\/em><\/p>\n

But that argument doesn\u2019t hold up.<\/strong> Investors in venture capital funds would have been as well off simply investing in the stock market over the past five to 15 years. That\u2019s what I see in reviewing the data from the research firm Cambridge Associates<\/a>: Investors in the high-risk, high-reward world of start-ups essentially did no better than they could have opening an account at their neighborhood brokerage. What might help those venture capitalists?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Well, what, Sallie? This:<\/p>\n

First Round Capital reports that its investments in companies with a female founder have posted 63 percent better returns<\/a> than men-only firms.<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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