The industry financial advisers, on average about 85% male, tends to be a more mature financial adviser - so I think in their 50s, really. For so many companies, in their 60s. In fact, there is one company that was telling me they had more financial advisers over the age of 80 than under the age of 30.

How about mandated parental leave.? Oh, okay. Less than 20% of companies in America have it. Most of them think about it as an expense. What's the bigger expense? The bigger expense occurs if women have babies and don't come back to work.

People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes.

Emerging investors want to invest differently. They want to have their dollars - their investment dollars - do double duty.

What I saw a thousand times during the downturn was, 'We'd like to give her that opportunity, but we need to go with the sure thing - we can't afford diversity right now,'

If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.

Women have different characteristics and needs than men do.