Gender discrimination

As the first woman executive at Carson Group, Teri Shepherd made it a priority to increase the number of women advisors at the firm.

As a PNC executive, Nicole Perkins looks at her position as a role model and thinks of it as "giving back or paying forward, however you look at it."

Many of those selected have focused their careers on helping women thrive in an industry where nearly 90% of the managers are men.

Aside from being some of the strongest overall industry performers, many have helped their peers thrive in a business in which they are a clear minority.

The firm incorrectly coded her payout at the institutional rate, a mistake that impeded her ability to move up the pay grid and attain bonuses, she alleges.

Gender discrimination and sexual harassment still occurs in a profession whose history includes scandals such as Smith Barney's boom-boom room.

The Massachusetts senator is struggling to get data that shows how bad sexual harassment might be on Wall Street.

Financial planning professionals tell us sexual harassment is pervasive. Can that change?

Although their products have won on returns, nearly all the new jobs have gone to men since 2015.

While American women earn only 82 cents for every dollar men earn, the wage gap is far greater for female planners.