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This book explores the role of women in alternative finance, particularly focusing on equity crowdfunding. It highlights the challenges women face in traditional funding markets, such as private equity and bank financing, and presents empirical evidence suggesting that women are not disadvantaged in crowdfunding environments. The authors, Francesca Battaglia and Emanuela Giusi Gaeta, provide an academic perspective on gender disparities in finance, discuss EU and G7 initiatives supporting female entrepreneurs, and conduct an empirical investigation into the Italian context. The book aims to inform researchers, policymakers, and practitioners interested in gender dynamics in finance and alternative funding channels.

Women in finance. --- Crowd funding. --- Women in finance --- Crowd funding

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Diversification is a core principle of investing. Yet money managers have not applied it to their own ranks. Only around 10 percent of portfolio managers—the people most directly responsible for investing your money—are female, and the numbers are even worse at the ownership level. What are the causes of this underrepresentation, and what are its consequences—including for firms’ and clients’ bottom lines?In Undiversified, experienced practitioners Ellen Carr and Katrina Dudley examine the lack of women in investment management and propose solutions to improve the imbalance. They explore the barriers that subtly but effectively discourage women from entering and staying in the industry at each point in the pipeline. At the entry level, the lack of visible role models discourages students from considering the field, and those who do embark on an investment management career face many obstacles to retention and promotion. Carr and Dudley highlight the importance of informal knowledge about how to navigate career tracks, without which women are left at a disadvantage in an industry that lionizes confidence. They showcase a diverse constellation of successful female portfolio managers to demystify the profession.Drawing on wide-ranging research, interviews with prospective, current, and former industry practitioners, and the authors’ own experiences, Undiversified makes a compelling case that increasing the number of women could help transform active investment management at a time when it is under threat from passive strategies and technological innovation.

Investment advisors. --- Portfolio managers. --- Women in finance. --- Portfolio management --- Financial services industry --- Sex discrimination in employment. --- Social aspects. --- Vocational guidance.

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Rocked by a flurry of high-profile sex discrimination lawsuits in the 1990's, Wall Street was supposed to have cleaned up its act. It hasn't. Selling Women Short is a powerful new indictment of how America's financial capital has swept enduring discriminatory practices under the rug. Wall Street is supposed to be a citadel of pure economics, paying for performance and evaluating performance objectively. People with similar qualifications and performance should receive similar pay, regardless of gender. They don't. Comparing the experiences of men and women who began their careers on Wall Street in the late 1990's, Louise Roth finds not only that women earn an average of 29 percent less but also that they are shunted into less lucrative career paths, are not promoted, and are denied the best clients. Selling Women Short reveals the subtle structural discrimination that occurs when the unconscious biases of managers, coworkers, and clients influence performance evaluations, work distribution, and pay. In their own words, Wall Street workers describe how factors such as the preference to associate with those of the same gender contribute to systematic inequality. Revealing how the very systems that Wall Street established ostensibly to combat discrimination promote inequality, Selling Women Short closes with Roth's frank advice on how to tackle the problem, from introducing more tangible performance criteria to curbing gender-stereotypical client entertaining activities. Above all, firms could stop pretending that market forces lead to fair and unbiased outcomes. They don't.

Women stockbrokers --- Equal pay for equal work --- Sex discrimination in employment --- Agentes de change --- Egalité de rémunération --- Discrimination sexuelle dans l'emploi --- Egalité de rémunération --- Employment (Economic theory) --- Sex role in the work environment --- Sexual division of labor --- Women --- Discrimination in employment --- Wages --- Stockbrokers --- Women in finance --- Employment

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"Long overlooked in histories of finance, women played an essential role in areas such as banking and the stock market during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet their presence sparked ongoing controversy. Hetty Green's golden touch brought her millions, but she outraged critics with her rejection of domesticity. Progressives like Victoria Woodhull, meanwhile, saw financial acumen as more important for women than the vote. George Robb's pioneering study sheds a light on the financial methods, accomplishments, and careers of three generations of women. Plumbing sources from stock brokers' ledgers to media coverage, Robb reveals the many ways women invested their capital while exploring their differing sources of information, approaches to finance, interactions with markets, and levels of expertise. He also rediscovers the forgotten women bankers, brokers, and speculators who blazed new trails--and sparked public outcries over women's unsuitability for the predatory rough-and-tumble of market capitalism. Entertaining and vivid with details, Ladies of the Ticker sheds light on the trailblazers who transformed Wall Street into a place for women's work."--

Finance --- Women capitalists and financiers --- Women in finance --- Businesswomen --- Capitalists and financiers --- History. --- History --- E-books --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Community organization --- Private finance --- Woodhull, Victoria --- Green, Hetty --- anno 1800-1899 --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States of America --- Finances --- Capitalism --- Participation --- Banking sector --- Book

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Microcredit is part of a global trend of financial inclusion that brings banking services, especially small loans, to the world's poor. In this book, Caroline Schuster explores Paraguayan solidarity lending as a window into the tensions between social development and global finance.Social Collateral tracks collective debt across the commercial society and smuggling economies at the Paraguayan border by examining group loans made to women by nonprofit development programs. These highly regulated loans are secured through mutual support and peer pressure-social collateral-rather than through physical collateral. This story of social collateral necessarily includes an interwoven account about the feminization of solidarity lending. At its core is an economy of gender-from pink-collar financial work, to men's committees, to women smugglers. At stake are interdependencies that bind borrowers and lenders, financial technologies, and Paraguayan development in ways that structure both global inequality and global opportunity.

Smuggling --- Women-owned business enterprises --- Businesswomen --- Microfinance --- Entrepreneurs, Women --- Women entrepreneurs --- Women in business --- Businesspeople --- Micro-finance --- Microcredit --- Microenterprise lending --- Microlending --- Financial services industry --- Small business --- Contraband trade --- Crime --- Customs administration --- Business enterprises --- Economic aspects --- Social aspects --- Finance --- E-books --- borrowing and lending. --- business and finance in paraguay. --- economics in paraguay. --- female entrepreneurs. --- feminist business. --- feminization of business. --- feminization of finance. --- feminization of lending. --- financial technology. --- gender studies. --- group loans for women. --- microcredit. --- microfinance. --- microloans. --- pink collar finance. --- small loans. --- social collateral. --- south american commerce. --- woman owned business. --- women in business. --- women in finance. --- women smugglers.