Contributed by Philippa Robbins and Emma Lyon
“Behind every great businesswoman……”
The Natwest everywoman Awards have been running for several years now but in December 2007, as members of Rooks Rider’s networking group, With Women in Mind, we attended this event for the first time along with fellow With Women in Mind members, colleagues from the […]

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It used to be that big law firms were the old guard of the inflexible work day. Tied to the holy grail, the universal unit of measurement – otherwise known as the billable hour – law firms were late adopters of work-life balance innovations like flex-time and part-time schedules for working moms. But as the […]

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I’ve been thinking about competition and how it acts as a force for change.  In the bear markets we face today, I began with who the competitors in the field are, and how their roles and interactions shape the market.  Recently, we have seen a trend towards consolidating the power of stock and futures exchanges […]

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For our Voices of Experience series, The Glass Hammer interviewed Linda Descano and asked her about her experience in financial services and her advice for young women in finance.
Linda Descano, CFA, is President and Chief Operating Officer of Women & Co., a division of Citi that provides women with educational resources for navigating life transitions […]

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For those of you who don’t know me, I am a cat-like creature at heart.  Happiest curled up by a warm fire, with a good book, a glass of decent red wine at my elbow, and some music playing. I don’t do wet, I don’t do cold, and I usually avoid energetic.
So it surprised even […]

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When you think of successful African American women, unless you have been living in a media-free cave for the last 20 years, Oprah springs to mind. While we acknowledge and admire the accomplishments of the talk show host, media mogul and self-made billionaire, it’s a shame that many of us are not equally familiar with […]

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Contributed by Rebecca Chong
The social networking website Facebook has become an increasingly popular way to resolve the time consuming and financially intensive burden of socialising, and brings it straight to the monitors of the internet generation, including at work. Indeed, many employees whose companies do not restrict access to the internet while away the days […]

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In the presidential election playing out in primaries across America, front-runner Hillary Clinton has the best chance of becoming president of any woman to date. Though The Glass Hammer typically confines its discussion to issues that deal directly with women in finance and law, Senator Clinton’s leadership style and the role of gender in presidential […]

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In celebration of Martin Luther King Day here in the U.S., the Glass Hammer will not be publishing today. That gives you more time to go along with today’s theme, “A day on, not a day off,” and do something to commemorate or demonstrate for civil rights.
In the future, The Glass Hammer will be publishing […]

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What is it about a few tears, or just a misty eye at a poignant public moment that spurs a media frenzy and possibly a turning point in the presidential election?
Tuesday night, January 8, was the night of the New Hampshire presidential primary. As the election results were coming in, I stepped out after work […]

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The older generation of traders wouldn’t even recognize the U.S. markets anymore. The past decade has brought so many changes to the trading landscape that even today’s traders need help navigating the new territory. Technology has reduced the number of floor traders because of its ability to speed up an order as well as make […]

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