CNBC – Wall Street may not be the old boys club it once was, but breaking into the rarefied world of hedge funds is still easier for men than women.
That’s the conclusion of a study of the class of investment banking analysts who joined major firms in the summer of 2012 and either stayed on or moved along after two years. The study, conducted by recruiting firm Vettery, covered 1,394 analysts—76 percent male and 24 percent female.