“Sexist things people said” thread
Pretty funny. Was loosely following the thread on why there are no women in hf and some of the posts answers the question themselves. Will keep a collection of these “gold” sexist comments from this forum and in life… feel free to add to this thread so next time someone asks this question again, the obvious answer has already been compiled.
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I'm in a seat now where I manage junior-mid level recruiting for our SM. I've always had a strong bias against hiring women due to my traumatic experiences in banking. Seeing the favoritism and bias towards women and the level of incompetence tolerated of women was just was a permanent turnoff to me from ever wanting to work with women again. However, I recognize that this isn't fair to anyone. On the senior side, it's easy to get a sense of how good a candidate is, woman or not. The junior side is where the problem lies. Would you have any advice for sifting through female junior talent. and identifying the few who are genuinely excellent out of the sea of women failing upwards in IB/PE?
I.Q > E.Q !
Nah that guy's right. It's a nightmare to hire women and deal with them in general
For example, based on your whiny behavior, I don't even need to check to say you are probably a woman
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Just adding to the above since the edit button is glitchy. My advice is just cover the candidates name or any other kind of “gender” identifier and look at their accomplishments. If they genuinely have good experience and skills that bring you value, focus on that and try to keep the discussion on those topics. For what it’s worth, I have also found that women naturally understand that at times they need to “cover up their femininity” and “look more like a guy” such as not working tight clothing that show off their curves and such and talking more about guy topics like sports and beer or whatever.
At the end of the day if your goal is to make money for your investors, you should focus on that. Gender of your team is secondary and it’s more about how you can best make money. Again, good luck bro
While it is a legal fiduciary obligation for hedge funds to prioritize making money for their investors, men at these funds work there to try to feel something for themselves (ego and superiority, escape from family, stability, etc). Unfortunately for some problematic men, working with capable women make them feel provoked/insecure, and they would disregard their legal obligations for alpha generation in favor of protecting their feelings —-> resulting in bias against women in hedge funds
Cope
The one field where there's no gender quota driven hiring ends up with all men ----> random woman: "its because the men's egos make them biased against women!"
Most people in HF are white men. Can you cite me some studies why this is a scientifically rational outcome instead of bias and inequality?
Lol you are confirmed retarded. Take a look at the junior class of most hedge funds - non-white is more than represented on a per-capita basis. You want to make it about some systemic issue when the more obvious answer is that you are incompetent and whiny
On another note, can you cite me some studies as to why it is scientifically rational that most teachers are women instead of bias and inequality?
Here's the P72 2025 Analyst class. Lots of white men here
The photo of the P72 2025 entry level class fails to disprove systemic discrimination against women in hedge funds. In reality, it demonstrates the exact opposite: Point72 has aggressively and successfully recruited women into one of the most competitive junior pipelines in the industry. What matters and what this image conveniently obscures - is the “leaky pipeline.” Female representation systematically declines at each successive level of seniority. At Point72, historical data from prior gender litigation revealed an extreme imbalance at the top (e.g., ~1 woman out of 125 PMs) and most senior women at P72 are in non-investment roles (investor relations, biz dev, compliance, strategy, etc).
This is not a failure of entry-level recruiting. It is a failure of retention, promotion, and power distribution. And this is at a large, institutional multi-strategy platform with a history of gender-related litigations and formalized processes / risk constraints. If meaningful gender parity cannot be sustained there, it raises even more questions about smaller, less structured SM hedge funds, where discretion is higher and public accountability is lower.
The photo also serves as evidence of how the industry manages systemic gender discrimination cosmetically.
Can also argue from the ego perspective that it feeds the ego of men to mansplain to entry-level women and that is why there are disproportionately more women in entry-level classes. However, as women gain edge and tenure in the industry, they disappear from the ranks.
This seems meritocratic, looks similar to competitive colleges in the US. The promotion / retention / senior level outcome, does not. Read some studies before about how men are failing in school, don’t think being an analyst is that different / use that many different skills. Before you say “omg risk taking”, seem to have some studies that say men have poorer returns too
I have managed men in my work place. While they sometimes lack independent thinking and required hand holding on every task, if you just tell them to hardcore some numbers they are fine. Good luck
Sounds like these men will be replaced by AI soon and should be looking for exits asap.
Let’s see who’s the problem in this industry - women who allegedly aren’t as good, or men whose ego can’t stand that there are women who can be better than them
Yaaas queen! I knew I'd make the list in your gossip sewing circle. See, women are funny and have a great sense of humor folks! 😂
If you want something funny, all you have to do is to look into the mirror
No lies at all!
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