{"id":34601,"date":"2017-06-24T11:41:55","date_gmt":"2017-06-24T09:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/?p=34601"},"modified":"2017-06-24T11:41:55","modified_gmt":"2017-06-24T09:41:55","slug":"women-are-finding-progress-in-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w-t-w.org\/en\/women-are-finding-progress-in-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Are Finding Progress in Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Women Are Finding Slow But Steady Progress in Finance. Female executives are seeing more positive shifts in their quest for full equality.<\/p>\n

Jeff Bounds reports: After coming to Dallas early in her banking career, Carla Brooks got a surprise at a private club atop a downtown skyscraper, where a man had invited her for a business lunch. \u201cWe had to go to a separate dining room where women were allowed,\u201d the Midwest native says of that late 1970s episode. \u201cThe main dining room was part of the men\u2019s section.\u201d Things have changed for women executives like Brooks, who today manages private equity funds\u2019 investments in banks for Dallas-based Commerce Street Investment Management.<\/p>\n

Where finding women in the boss\u2019 office was once scarce, Elaine Agather, who helms both the 12,000-employee North Texas operation for JPMorgan Chase and the 200-employee southern region of its private bank, says she not only has a female boss, but sees women running the company\u2019s consumer bank and credit card business.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not been directed from above,\u201d Agather says about women\u2019s high-level roles at Chase. \u201cIt\u2019s because we have received opportunities and the support to be successful here.\u201d
\nDespite decades of diversity efforts, management and executive roles in banking and finance remain male-dominated, an issue that crosses industries and job duties. In 2015, women made up 2.8 percent of CEOs in 60 finance and insurance companies in the S&P 500, according to Catalyst, a New York-based research and advocacy nonprofit….Women are finding progress in Finance<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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