She has written about Wall Street, securities regulation and gender discrimination for The New York Times, Bloomberg and TheStreet. My generation is inclined to say goofy things like "Godspeed' to a girl like you, but I figure you'd be more amenable to a simple, "You go, girl." State Street Global Advisors is pushing public companies to put women on their boards of directors lest they be on the firm's bad side. And in the financial world, that makes State Street a diversity overachiever. That 1996 lawsuit cost Smith Barney $150 million and got people talking about the advent of "historic" change for Wall Street.

Source: CNN March 10, 2017 20:48 UTC