Dr Amy Diehl is an award-winning information technology leader and gender equity researcher who has authored numerous scholarly journal articles and book chapters. Her writing has also appeared in Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Ms. Magazine. Glass Walls is her first book. She is also a sought-after speaker, consultant, and lawsuit expert witness. She resides in a small town in Pennsylvania.

We cover the following in our conversation:

00:10 Meet Dr. Amy Diehl: gender equity advocate

01:50 Understanding gender bias

02:52 Impact of gender bias on women and money

05:15 The six gender bias barriers

06:11 Male privilege and disproportionate constraints

07:20 Insufficient support and devaluation

08:36 Hostility at work: manager sabotage

13:35 Acquiescence: internalising gender bias

15:26 The cost of gender bias in organisations

17:45 Victoria's Secret: a case study

21:14 The role of leadership in addressing gender bias

22:44 The gender bias scale: measuring and addressing bias

24:44 Personal experiences with gender bias

26:07 Understanding and identifying gender bias

28:47 Strategies for momen to combat gender bias

29:15 Building a support network

30:06 Considering alternatives in a toxic environment

33:15 The role of leaders in addressing gender bias

39:24 The importance of allies

43:29 Gender bias in politics: VP Kamala Harris

48:21 Concluding Thoughts

Hayley James is Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Personal Financial Wellbeing at Aston Business School. Hayley’s research interests concern sociological perspectives on money, finance and value, and how they intersect with gender, ageing and the lifecourse.

We cover the following:

01:16 The importance of financial wellbeing

01:59 The asset economy and financial engagement

04:40 Gender and financial systems

05:50 Defining financial wellbeing

09:10 Subjective vs. objective financial wellbeing

11:54 Interdisciplinary approach to personal finance

19:07 Gender neutral to gender friendly finance

24:29 Challenges in retirement planning

26:20 Challenges of imagining later life

27:09 The Impact of financial literacy and support systems

31:30 Gender norms and financial decision making

35:42 Policy and financial education for women

39:41 The role of community in financial education

41:31 Implications of the recent UK budget

45:03 Future research in personal finance

46:21 Rethinking retirement

50:08 Conclusion and final thoughts

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Vicky Pryce is Chief Economic Adviser and a board member at the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR). She was previously Senior Managing Director at FTI Consulting, Director General for Economics at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and Joint Head of the UK Government Economic Service.

Before that she was Partner at the accounting and consulting firm KPMG after senior economic positions in banking and the oil sector.

She has held a number of academic posts and is a Fellow and Council member of the UK Academy of Social Sciences, a Fellow of the Society of Professional Economists and a Companion of the British Academy of Management.

She was until recently on the Council of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and is a member of the Advisory Board of the central banking think-tank OMFIF and of the Economic Advisory Group of the British Chambers of Commerce.

She is also a Patron of the charities Pro-Bono Economics and Working Chance. Her books include: “Greekonomics:

The Euro crisis and Why Politicians Don't Get It”; “It's the Economy, Stupid- Economics for Voters”, with Ross and Urwin; “Redesigning Manufacturing”, with Nielsen and Beverland”; and “Why Women Need Quotas” and "Women vs Capitalism”, was published by Hurst in November 2019.

She is a frequent contributor to media broadcasts and debates on the economy and on the economic rationale for gender equality.

She is co-founder of GoodCorporation, a company set up to advise on corporate social responsibility, is a Freeman and Liveryman of the City of London, was the first female Master of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants and has been sitting on the City’s Members Diversity Working Party.

We cover the following:

00:58 Overview of UK Budget and initial reactions

03:33 Post-budget market reactions and economic implications

06:37 Impact on businesses and investment

09:20 Technological advancements and productivity

12:54 Public services and long-term growth

22:07 Brexit and its ongoing impact

27:54 Training and apprenticeship levy

28:51 Diversity and inclusion in training

29:22 Supporting female founders

30:56 Investment in UK equities

34:52 Crypto, blockchain and CBDCs

44:47 Potential financial Shocks

48:38 Impact of US election on markets

51:28 Evaluating the success of the UK budget

52:42 Final thoughts.

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Amy-Willard Cross is the founder of Gender Fair, the first consumer ratings system for gender equality which produces ratings on brands, colleges,  B2B vendors and nonprofits so people can align their dollars with their values of equality. She was named a Global Thinker by Foreign Policy for her work in “Economic Girl Power”. Cross was formerly an author, editor and writer, is the great-granddaughter of a suffragist and named for Frances Willard who supported unions, equal pay and regulation of business monopolies.

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Ayesha Ofori is the founder and CEO of Propelle, a pioneering investment platform designed to empower women to achieve financial independence.

As a former Executive Director and Private Wealth Adviser at Goldman Sachs, Ayesha personally managed over £500 million in client assets, working closely with ultra-high-net-worth individuals.

Motivated by a desire to bridge the gender investment gap and make investing more accessible to all women, Ayesha left her successful career in traditional finance to launch Propelle.

With an MBA from London Business School and a Master’s degree in Physics from Imperial College London, Ayesha combines deep financial expertise with a passion for helping women build wealth and securing their financial futures. To find out more, please visit https://propelle.io/

We cover the following in our conversation:

00:13 Meet Ayesha Ofori: From Goldman Sachs to Propelle

02:12 Ayesha's early money lessons

04:45 Women's relationship with money

09:52 The gender investment gap

16:05 How women think about investing

27:45 Challenges in financial services for women

34:24 Introducing Propelle: a female-focused investment platform

39:55 Fundraising challenges and successes

43:16 Understanding the gender gap in investment

43:42 Bootstrapping and early funding challenges

44:02 The impact of Google’s grant

44:23 Navigating the VC landscape

47:24 Building a strong team

52:17 The importance of advisors and mentors

57:49 Future roadmap and vision for Propelle

01:03 Encouraging women to invest

01:11  Final thoughts

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Merryn Somerset Webb is a senior columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, covering personal finance and investment, and host of the Merryn Talks Money podcast. Previously, she was editor in chief of MoneyWeek. She published her second book, Share Power: How Ordinary People Can Change the Way That Capitalism Works - and Make Money Too.

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Danish born Ida coined the term Femtech in 2016.
Ida Tin is the co-founder and former CEO and chairwoman, of Clue the most trusted female health app. Clue has more than 10m active users in over 190 countries.
Ida has been interviewed or featured in major media including The New York Times, New York Magazine, Forbes, Der Spiegel and Le Figaro. She was also a speaker at prestigious conferences such as TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco, LeWeb in Paris, Forbes Most Powerful Women in Montreal, Slush in Finland and many more.
Before starting Clue, Ida led motorcycle tours around the world for five years in the motorcycle touring company MotoMundo she cofounded with her dad Hjalte Tin. She guided tours in Mongolia, Cuba and Vietnam amongst other destinations.
Ida attended various art schools in South Africa and London, and graduated in 2004 from the progressive social entrepreneurship BA level business school The KaosPilots in Denmark. Ida currently lives in Berlin and has two children.
She is now working on a new book about Femtech and is an active voice in the Femtech space. She is running three series of Femtech courses, from June 2024.

We cover the following in our conversation:

00:11 Meet Ida Tin: the pioneer of femtech

02:02 Ida's childhood

05:01 The birth of Clue: a revolutionary femtech startup

07:20 Challenges and vision in femtech

10:22 Understanding femtech and its impact

14:51 Addressing the gender health gap

19:58 The importance of diversity and inclusion

27:24 The impact of gender in leadership

28:19 The rise of femtech

29:30 Flo Health

31:22 Ethical concerns in tech

32:54 The importance of diverse leadership

36:35 Building trust and transparency

45:14 Imagining a new system

49:29 Leadership and emotional intelligence

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Ozge Dogan is the Founder of Karman Beyond, Türkiye’s first independent multi-family office – democratising wealth management for families.

Karman Beyond’s goal is to guide families – together with experts – to manage the unique potential of their wealth. Karman Beyond guides them to personalised, globally-minded solutions and go beyond traditional financial services, including risk management; tax and legal; governance and legacy planning; and lifestyle / concierge services.

As a next-generation family leader, Ozge founded Karman Beyond in response to her own family’s wealth management needs and the lack of a single, central, advisory solution. They seek to provide Türkiye’s families with the best access to the guidance and expertise they need – much like her own family originally required.

She is a strong believer in enacting positive social change, and is a Board Member at Yanındayız Derneği – a rights advocacy NGO promoting gender equality in Türkiye via the prism of universal human rights.

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Marypat Thenell Smucker, CFA, MA Economics, MS Finance, is Co-Founder and Principal of Parallelle Finance. She has published a range of research pieces on sustainable and gender lens investing, including Parallelle’s in-depth quarterly reports on sustainable investing and women in the global workplace. Her work has been featured on the CFA Institute's Enterprising Investor site. She has contributed to sustainable investing sites and provided numerous media quotes on gender lens investing. Prior to co-founding Parallelle, Marypat was a consultant in investment communications and editorial services for global asset management firms. She began her consultancy following a role as Managing Editor of institutional investment communications at T. Rowe Price. Before that Marypat worked in transaction services for KPMG. She began her finance career as an analyst at Emerging Markets Partnership, a firm which managed the first private equity funds for emerging markets infrastructure.Parallelle Finance is a leading provider of research on sustainable and gender equality-focused investing. The firm consults globally on sustainable and gender lens investing. Parallelle recently authored Gender Bonds: A Toolkit for the Design and Issuance of Gender Bonds in Africa, published in early 2024 by Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Africa. Gender bonds are positioned for growth in global fixed income markets, driven by high growth in women-owned businesses and ongoing funding gaps. In addition, Parallelle provides investment advisory services to U.S. investors and an analysis tool for U.S. and global investors to score public and private investments with an equality lens.

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Christina Teo is the chief builder of SHE1K, which is the world's first C-suite executive angel syndicate. She has built a community of 170 C-suite and senior executives who have invested $6m+ in 30 startups.

Christina has built her career mostly outside of Singapore. She started in market research, she then took on regional sales, marketing, product and P&L roles in technology and in companies such as Acer, IBM, and 3Com. During the dot com boom, she became the first country manager at Yahoo! Singapore, followed by launching the world's first Windows smartphone at O2, where she single-handedly spearheaded the business from scratch to $300m in revenue.

Christina retired for the first time at the age of 41. She went on to New York to pursue her personal destiny but returned as CMO of Hong Kong's CSL, carrying half of the company's P&L with a 90 person team.

Christina has lived in Hong Kong, in Taiwan, France, Italy, and New York, and pursued a master's in psychology at NYU, with a bachelor's at National University of Singapore.

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