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Before Deja Alfaro found herself working in fund management in London, she was a first-generation college student at NYU trying to figure out where she fit in finance. Like many business students going to school in New York, the path seemed to point in one direction. “Everyone just does investment banking,” Deja said.
Yesterday, my daughter texted a picture from work. Two tiny preschoolers, both perched squarely in her lap, grinning at the camera. It was adorable. She’s spending her gap year at a preschool, before she starts graduate school in the fall. I’ve gotten a lot of texts like this.
But it was her caption that made me laugh out loud: “My job is basically just ‘chair.’”<...
When people talk about women’s advancement, the conversation usually jumps straight to the C‑suite. But the real story starts much earlier, at the very first step up. For more than seven years, we’ve had a name for the place where women’s careers most often stall: the Broken Rung.
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This is the time of year when people who are famous, accomplished, or both get invited to stand in front of a room full of graduating students and say something memorable.
Graduation speeches are supposed to be inspirational. They are meant to give you good advice. And they are supposed to send you out the door ready for whatever comes next.
The p...
When Anuva Wardah arrived at the College Fast Track to Finance Conference, she wasn’t sure how her background in Political Science and Sociology would translate into a finance career. As someone deeply involved in civic engagement...