7 Outstanding Female Investors

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If you want to rise to the top as a woman in finance but you're not sure how, seeking out a role model can help illuminate the path. Here are seven women who have achieved great success in this field by being willing to stand out, taking risks and refusing to accept "no" for an answer.

Editorial:

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

Finance is a male-dominated profession, especially at the top. While women in the United States make up 55.4% of the total labor force in finance, they comprise only 16.6% of executive officers, 18% of board directors and 2.9% of CEOs, according to a December 2011 survey by Catalyst Research.

As outsiders, women are alternately overlooked and heavily scrutinized when it comes to positions of power in finance. They are sometimes underestimated and held to a lower standard, while at other times they are expected to work harder to prove themselves against their male counterparts or even pitted against their female coworkers.

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Source:

San Francisco Chronicle

URL:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2012/03/06/investopedia6668.DTL

Date:

March 7, 2012

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