A little girl's statue was installed in front of the Wall Street bull

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GKI ; how dare you use y our right brain logic to find one of the many examples of females out earning men?? I wish i had though of that.LOL And i did kindly ask a woman once , should not we still use the word mankind?? She, did agree, when i noted it had the word kind in it LOL .

 

Well there you go. See Easy Peasy.....

 

For real... there's no gender involved in trading.
Just more monkey's throwing darts at a chart thinking they know what's up.

 

I don't know what ever happened with this, but I thought it was cute.

 

I see your point. I think State Street was simply trying to promote SPY, DIA diversification.Still, they did a pretty slick free picture ad on CNN, with their female banker, on CNN. LOL

 

Absolutely love this statue. The girl is standing so fearless against the 'bulls' of WallStreet. Prehaps a sign that women are starting to shatter the glass ceiling, and people are realising it - Happy International Women's Day to all the female investors out there!

 

I was responding the women in construction industry specifically, where there is an obvious physical strength requirement. Men who do go into nursing (9%) actually earn more then then women (https://www.census.gov/people/io/files/Men_in_Nursing_Occupations.pdf), so no structural issues there.

 

If women are better traders and asset managers why do they need someone to pay them salary? Why would someone decide to pay a talented & highly profitable woman lower salary just b/c she is a woman? What business sense does it make?

 

Because you need capital and market access. It's for the same reason I am working for a multi-billion fund instead of trading out my basement somewhere in the Rocky Mountains.

Nobody really decides that, it's not about business sense, it's about attrition and lack of opportunity. Finance is an apprenticeship and to get to the point where will have an ability to utilize your talents and skills as a trader/AM/PM, you need to rise through the ranks. If you have problems progressing between different stages of your career, you will never get to the stage when you can get paid buckets. True for men too, btw.

 

Yes, but for that you need investors, not bosses.
Aren't they paid commissions depending on their performance in addition to their base salary?

I have no idea what you are getting at. Where is structural difference between men & women?