A new study shows that the number of women on Wall Street is falling. The finance industry’s culture remains a problem.  

Over the past year, a handful of prominent women have helped reinvigorate the conversation about their gender’s collective ascent within the workforce. Former director of policy planning at the U.S. State Department Anne-Marie Slaughter touched off the debate in June 2012 in her Atlantic article, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All.” Last fall, journalist Hanna Rosin took the other side in her book The End of Men: And the Rise of Women, built on the optimistic premise that women’s increasingly dominant role within the global economy is all but assured. This March, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg gave her views on modern workplace feminism in Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, advising women on how best to climb the corporate ladder….
Number of Women in Finance Declines