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Happy women’s day! You’re paid less than men! – Part 2

Lisa joined FT Alphaville in September 2011 after a tour of duty through the guts of the financial industry, having worked as an analyst at a bank and for a financial data company.

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| Mar 08 13:57 | Comment |

In Part 1, we looked at the Futuretrack data that showed female graduates in the UK earning less than their male colleagues. This appears to hold even when graduates did the same degree, went to a similar university, and so on. It is particularly concerning to see data that show women start out on lower pay, given the potential knock-on effects for one’s future earnings.

In this post, we move on to look at a few academic studies about why this might be, particularly around pay negotiation. Read more

Happy women’s day! You’re paid less than men! – Part 1

Lisa joined FT Alphaville in September 2011 after a tour of duty through the guts of the financial industry, having worked as an analyst at a bank and for a financial data company.

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| Mar 08 11:38 | Comment |

Hurrah, it’s International Women’s Day! Time for a bunch of reports informing us of much less we earn than men! Aren’t you excited?

The formula:

  1. Sample data finds that women aren’t paid as highly as men, while holding various factors constant.
  2. Off into the tumbleweeds of academic studies that try to determine why.
  3. A pundit in question writes about it. (Why, hello…)

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BUNDESBANK COMES OUT AGAINST WOMEN, WAR ON ALL GOOD THINGS CONTINUES. PUPPIES AND ICE CREAM TARGETED NEXT

Lisa joined FT Alphaville in September 2011 after a tour of duty through the guts of the financial industry, having worked as an analyst at a bank and for a financial data company.

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| Mar 27 2012 17:51 | Comment |

FT Alphaville may be exaggerating with the headline a bit, but then, there’s this:

Board changes at banks that result in a higher proportion of female executives “lead to a more risky conduct of business”, concluded the authors of an extensive study of German finance houses released by the country’s central bank. Read more

Vogue finance

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Feb 23 2010 11:34 | Comment |

Whom would you rather see in the pages of Vogue?

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Whoops!

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Feb 02 2010 13:36 | Comment |

This video (purportedly) shows a Macquarie Bank worker caught assessing certain non-bank assets, while his colleague talks Australian interest rates with 7 News:

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Goldman awaits the rise of the women

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Aug 06 2009 10:54 | Comment |

Perhaps this reflects our own biases more than Goldman’s, but we think the investment bank has come over strangely feminist in its latest research note.

“The Power of the Purse: Gender Equality and Middle Class Spending” is a 25-page piece of research which asserts that improving conditions for women in developing countries will lead to greater female purchasing power and eventually result in a “virtuous circle” of global economic growth and equality. Read more

Recession over! Worst of the New York dating scene returns

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Aug 03 2009 09:07 | Comment |

Kill us.

Fashion meets Finance – the New York-based social service that aims to match attractive but relatively poor women with relatively unattractive but rich finance professionals correct gender imbalances between New York bar scenes, is still alive and is about to hold another of their sleazy soirées. Read more

The Women (& Co.) of Citi

Tracy Alloway used to be deputy editor of FT Alphaville. Here she learned the details of derivatives, the absurdities of accounting and the various structures of ... erm ... structured finance. She now covers big US banks for the FT paper, including Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She pops up on FT Alphaville every once in a while.

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| Jun 11 2009 11:06 | Comment |

Citi has had it with women.

WomenCo. that is. Read more