Within the next decade, women are expected to control half of the private wealth in the U.S., but conferences for money managers are still dominated by men.

32% of the Wall Street Journal readers  are women. For many years, I have faithfully read the financial news and, not so faithfully, looked at the ads. But sometimes an oversized or provocative ad will catch my eye … as in the case of one recent full-page splash for a private equity conference sponsored by Dow Jones. The ad prominently displayed the photos of 10 featured speakers. All men. Huh, I thought. What happened there?

Where are all the women at finance conferences?