2. All of them, as they progress through their undergraduate careers and then on to graduate and professional careers, need a mentor or a coach, and a network of women and men to help promote them in their career.
3. We think it’s important to get to young women early. We’re reaching them as rising juniors with two years of undergraduate left, which gives them time to take additional courses or change majors … we’re putting some thought into programs for high-school aged students as well.
Rianka Dorsainvil
Founder and president
Your Greatest Contribution
Lanham, Md.
1. Expose more young women to the financial planning career while they are still students in high school and college. As financial advisors, we should talk to guidance counselors and assistant principals so that they can direct women students into this field.
2. Debunk the myth that this profession is all about numbers and men in dark blue suits behind mahogany desks. It is about building relationships and helping people. There are so many women who are better at building relationships than men.
3. Women need to share their stories. We can show them that there are all kinds of women who are successful in financial planning. You can’t be what you can’t see.
Marilyn Mohrman-Gillis