Now in its fourth year, Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management Women in Investing (WIN) conference is one of the first efforts by a business school to address the lack of women in financial management and provide a forum for MBA students to learn and network.

Sixty women from 12 top business schools, including Johnson, London Business School, Columbia Business School, and University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business spent two days in Boston discussing what it takes to have a successful career and getting advice on picking stocks, generating investment ideas, and investing in emerging markets.

This year’s conference comes on the heels of Harvard Business School’s efforts at a “gender makeover,” and the national discussion about sexism raised by Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook (FB) and HBS grad class of ’95, in her book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. The finance sector is woefully behind in gender equality: Women represent only 16 percent of executive and board positions in financial services and less than 10 percent in fun.
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