Julia Robertson? Georgina Soros? Not Bloody Likely

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by StockJockey
Tuesday, November 08, 2005 - 8:57 am

soros hairFortune’s recent article spotlighting the lack of women in the hedge fund industry (not including secretaries or marketers, that is) contains a few memorable outtakes:

  • Anna Nikolayevsky, who runs New York hedge fund Axel Capital, was in the middle of interviewing a young man to work for her when he interrupted to ask, “So who are the guys who started this fund?”
  • “I have never hired a woman hedge fund manager, and I am leery of them,” says someone who hires hedge fund managers for a living—and happens to be a woman herself.
  • Another woman has heard over and over from men that they don’t like to work with women because they can’t stand tears. (A friend of hers has a great retort: “I can’t deal with watching you guys adjust yourselves all day!")
  • Women are more likely to say, “What’s my downside?” says Berna Barshay, who runs the Ingleside Select fund. “There’s less hubris, and there’s more ‘What am I missing?’ ”

    • Hedge Funds: Where the Girls Aren’t [Fortune]

    Comments:

    As a woman on a trading floor, I can relate to the woman who can’t deal with watching the guys “adjust” themselves. Totally gross.

    Posted by CK Trader  on  12/31/1969  at  03:00 PM

    You gotta do what you gotta do.

    Posted by The Dude  on  12/31/1969  at  03:00 PM
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