Sunday, August 06, 2006

Women in banking

This has to be one of the hardest industries to penetrate (as it were). I don't think even the tenure process can compete with banking for demanding and time-consuming.

I frankly don't think this is a solvable problem. When hours mean the difference between cutting a multi-billion dollar deal or not, there just isn't that much room for flex-hours or people who are going to prioritize other parts of their life. Even having husbands who will be stay-at-home dads doesn't fix the problem because I suspect it's fundamentally that women don't want to miss their children growing up. There's a fundamental tension that is unresolvable.

Welcome to capitalism.

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