My inspiring powerhouse of a friend, feminist philanthropist Jacki Zehner, has a post up today over at Huffington Post that I encourage you to help me make go viral. Here’s the gist:
On Wednesday Goldman Sachs & Co. announced their new class of Partners and yesterday they announced their new Managing Directors. Twelve years ago Jacki was one of those fortunate people who got the call inviting her into the partnership of the firm. The year she made it, she was one of TWO women out of a total of THIRTY-EIGHT, bringing the grand total at that point in time up to TWELVE. One by one, for reasons Jacki writes about from time to time on her blog, those women left. Of the fourteen pre-IPO women partners of the firm only THREE remain. So many of those who have left have gone on to do KICK-ASS AMAZING THINGS. They are leaders, movers, shakers, philanthropists, and innovative social entrepreneurs.
So that makes Jacki, and these other women, Goldman Sachs alumni–and they are proud of it, as should they be. The question Jacki now asks, though, in light of a cover story in Bloomberg Markets magazine this week that features FORTY-THREE Goldman alums–FORTY-ONE of whom are WHITE MEN–is this:
Is Goldman Sachs proud of them?
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