Benzinga's Women's Wealth Forum

Christina Qi didn’t get too deep in her trading career before realizing other ambitions. They were risky ambitions, but she resolved to give them a shot. “I thought, ‘it’s okay if I start a company and it fails, I can just go back to work,’” Qi, now the CEO of...

Underrepresentation, overt bias and pay disparities haven’t discouraged contemporary women from succeeding in business. Here is how some of the sector’s top leaders did it. 1. Pick A Path Apeksha Garga, head of design at Wealthfront, said step one is finding companies whose missions...

As some see it, basic biology has stunted success for half the U.S. workforce. An historical bias has limited women in compensation, responsibility and role. The unfavorable conditions prompted recent protests in the form of bronze and absence, and they inspired corporate strategies addressing pay...

It’s an era of milestones for women worldwide. From the “Me Too” movement to the Women’s March to Hillary Clinton’s presidential run, the last few years have been marked by active empowerment. Channeling this energy, glass-ceiling breakers of the financial industry...