Why are there no women at Apollo?
Looking through LinkedIn, very difficult to find any women working there at any level. Is that true and if so why? How many women are there in their PE associate classes?
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PE is an absurdly male-dominated industry. Go to the website of any private equity firm and you'll find a similar pattern. You'll have to harness your elementary school "Where's Waldo" skills to spot the women on the team - it's no easy task. In the few cases where you do find a few women on the firm's "Team" page, you'll generally find they are in roles like Invesor Relations, HR, Executive Assistants, etc.
Take GTCR for example. A prestigious, well-known PE firm often regarded as being quite collegial compared to its counterparts.
It's pretty unlikely that a female pursing PE will look at this website and feel comfortable to work on this type of an investment team. The reasons behind this engrained gender imbalance in PE are infinite, but it comes down to this - women will generally be deterred from industries and companies that are highly male-dominated. And while lots of industries like tech and consulting have made efforts to fix this over the years, PE has done next to nothing.
What do you expect:
Umm while I'm sure this comment is well-intentioned, this right here is the problem - assuming that women are responsible for taking care of their families while men go to their PE jobs and put food on the table.
With proper maternity and paternity leave policies in place, no workplace should find itself inherently precluding the employment of women because of its "brutal culture". I'm not sure what Apollo's policies around this are like, but given the rest of the company's culture I imagine their family policies are probably quite outdated and archaic.
A chick isn't down to work 80-100 hours in a week..they just marry the PE guys who do (and also make $$$)...