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An interesting glass ceiling at Deutsche Bank

It's tough being a non-German speaking banker of Indian descent working in London--especially if your career goal is to run a top German bank. This is obstacle now faced by Anshu Jain, who has successfully run Deutsche Bank's ascendant worldwide investment banking operations, which accounts fo

Sallie Krawcheck on Wall Street women

We asked not too long ago: Where have all the women gone?    Unfortunately, the ranks of women working in the financial services industry has plunged over the last decade, falling by 141,000, or 2.6 percent. The number of men employed by the industry, meanwhile, grew by 389,000, or 9.6

Women executives thriving at the top?

Have the corridors of power on Wall Street gotten more hospitable to women in recent years? It would be hard to argue that the financial crisis has been kind to women executives. Some big names took big falls, like Erin Callan and Zoe Cruz. A lot of male executive took their lumps as well. Now

Carlyle Group shows the way with women executives

The private equity industry has never been known as a hospitable place for women. Some have given the industry the dubious distinction of "having some of the thickest glass ceilings in all of finance." This makes the Carlyle Group's recent record of hiring and promoting women all the more rema

Goldman Sachs executive files mommy track suit

"Goldman Sachs views working mothers as second-class citizens"--so says the lawyer for Charlotte Hanna, who has filed suit against the gilded bank ( NYSE: GS ). She claims she was on the "mommy track" when she was treated poorly and, after she had two kids, was eventually fired. According to

Where in the world is Erin Callan?

The woman who once held the mythic "Most Powerful Woman on Wall Street" title, has a new life. Erin Callan ( Erin Callan news) was a veritable rock star before the crisis set in. Her promotion to CFO of Lehman Brothers ( Lehman Brothers news) made her the first woman on Lehman's executive co

Why Sallie Krawcheck really left

Sallie Krawcheck's rise at Citigroup was often described as meteoric. Of course, meteors have to crash or burn out at some point. Krawcheck crashed headlong into new CEO Vikram Pandit, the subject of a telling feature in the New York Times . The news struck some as yet another reminder of the g