Happy New Year. We will return on the 2nd January with more articles to aid and inform you.
Theglasshammer.com is for the people, so if anyone wants to contribute a guest blog or be interviewed do get in touch with our Editor erin@theglasshammer.com
We also want you to write in and tell us about events that other […]

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The idea of taking to the high seas never really occurred to me before. I’m not the kind of person who likes being cold and wet, for one. Sailing just didn’t really push my ‘I want to try that’ button. I had a head filled with misconceptions about what it was really like, with no […]

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The editors at The Glass Hammer have just learned that Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani opposition leader and champion for women’s rights, the rule of law and democracy, has been assassinated by a suicide bomber during a political rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on December 27, 2007. At least a dozen others were killed in the attack. Ms. […]

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MSN released their annual list of the most influential women in 2007. The list included politicians (two, to be exact), singers, television personalities and actresses (six, to be exact), a random woman who popped up on the radar of bloggers at some point during 2007, a coach and an author. The big shocker? The list […]

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Contributed by Sally Lee

This piece is in response to “The H-Bomb,” an article by Erin Abrams which was published on The Glass Hammer a few months ago. The basic argument of the piece was that smart, successful women with high-powered and high-earning jobs (in this case, graduates of Harvard Law School), had a hard time […]

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Contributed by Rebecca Chong of Rooks Riders Solicitors
Accountants, bankers and analysts are increasingly finding that they have more in common with celebrities than they ever realized or wanted. It is no secret that Tinseltown and the media have been unkind to women who dare to age. For Hollywood, this led to some of the industry’s finest […]

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Contributed by Susie Potier 
Come December, the whispers on Wall Street are not about who is doing what for New Year’s Eve or where to go on the perfect winter beach getaway. Let’s not kid ourselves. The talk on the Street is all about bonuses. Who’s getting how much, and more importantly, who’s not getting as […]

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With more and more women taking time off from their careers in finance to start a family or pursue personal ambitions, it is no wonder that the corporate world is in need of qualified female applicants. After studies revealed that it was difficult for employees to re-enter the work force after a career break, […]

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Contributed by Lauren Davis
Last summer, at one New York investment bank, a male executive dropped into a luncheon for women employees and asked their advice about a problem. He explained that didn’t really understand what motivated female investment bankers, because they “seemed to want different things” than their male counterparts.
While this comment was met with […]

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As yesterday’s Glass Hammer posting by Zoe-Cruz-not-the-Zoe-Cruz noted, these are tough times for women on Wall Street. Indeed, as a recent posting on the New York Times Dealbook website noted, Zoe Cruz’s forced transition into early retirement from her job heading up trading and risk operations at Morgan Stanley may have quietly heralded the end […]

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Contributed, entirely coincidentally, by Zoe Cruz.
Last week, the co-president of Morgan Stanley and one of the most visible women on Wall Street, Zoe Cruz, was fired. According to Bloomberg.com, Ms. Cruz, who was born in Greece and received undergraduate and MBA degrees from Harvard University, started her Morgan Stanley career in 1982 as a bond […]

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Several recent Glass Hammer posts have focused on finance jobs in quantitative analysis, and how to help women break into this mostly male-dominated field. For a background, take a look at “Why Do Girls Hate Algorithms?” and “Breaking the “Quant Jock” Stereotype.” To continue this series, I interviewed a friend of mine, “Mr. B,” who […]

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Contributed by Susie Potier
A rumor was circulating around the Futures Industry Association (FIA) Expo last month when the largest futures exchange did not exhibit at the conference. The question on the tip of everyone’s tongue was “why wasn’t the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) at the FIA show?” It was the talk of the […]

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With more women becoming entrepreneurs than ever before, there is a high demand for information about how to start a business. At the Futures Industry Association Expo in Chicago last week, one of the panel discussions included advice on building a managed funds business. The broad-based suggestions given to the audience were applicable to a […]

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Tonight I cried.
I shouldn’t have. It’s been a fantastic week, at least work-wise. I pulled a huge rabbit out of a hat and should have been resting on my laurels with a glass of bubbly, contemplating my glorious future with an exhilarated (but exhausted) team around me…
So why did I burst into tears? (Especially when […]

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