‘Tremendously sad milestone’: Women leaders lament RBG
The passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is a mournful milestone in the ongoing battle for social and financial equality. For the advice industry, the fight for gender equality is still an uphill battle as advisory firms continue to struggle with gender stereotypes and unconscious biases.
“While many will quickly argue that the fight for equality is still out of reach, with women making 80 cents to a man’s $1 and with so few women topping the organizational chart of the nation’s largest companies, it would be regrettable to forget all the ways that tangible progress for female financial independence and security was forged through the laws fought for by RBG,” wrote InvestmentNews special projects editor Liz Skinner in a column this week.
Her work allowed women to have equal access to financial tools — like credit cards and mortgages — and because of her both men and women have equal legal access to the most crucial savings and investing tools. Click through to see the reflections of five female executives on RBG and her impact on their careers.