Hedge fund witches hit glass ceiling
Hedge funds may be bastions of countercultural financiers who've quit the mainstream, but they're not very female friendly.
A report released last week by headhunter Hanson Green found up to 50% of women working in fund management and hedge fund management said they'd come up against the 'glass ceiling'.
The survey covered 30 senior women and found that those concerned blamed the long hours culture and male-orientated networking for curtailing career opportunities.
We probed a handful of women in the sector for their opinions. Few were willing to comment on the record, but Gay Huey Evans, president of multi-strategy hedge fund Tribeca Global Management (Europe), was bolder than most. Huey Evans told us: "In my early career it was more difficult to leave work to go home and tend to my daughter, despite returning to work later that evening. Attitudes towards flexible working are certainly improving."
She went a little further in an interview with The Times and said women are seen as "witches", whereas men are "just seen as aggressive."
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