
Women in private equity: Minority report

When asked to name most difficult aspect of being a woman in private equity, Lisa Suennen, co-founder and managing member of California-based venture capital healthcare investor Psilos Group, cites the adage that women need to work twice as hard to get half as far as men in the industry.
“It’s annoying that women have to work to have their ideas taken seriously while men’s ideas are presumed to be worthy of serious consideration,” she explains. “Just the idea that there is an...
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