Wall Street Gender

Wall Street

There might be many reasons why securities and investment banking business male oriented and dominated.

• Working condition might be tough and hard compare to other industries, so it may be difficult for females survive. In particular, when females get married and have children, they need more family oriented working environment.
• Unlike other industry, those sectors are traditionally male oriented sectors, thus it could take long time to change the current norm.

Simply speaking, Wall Street is Wall Street which means that they care more about performance in terms of generating profit. The amount of monetary costs might be not a big deal for them. If there is needs to discriminate by gender for better overall performance, they may not really care about law suit or that sort of reputation.  

Personally I don’t believe that law / regulation is an answer to solve some cultural problems. However, I also admit that law is the most and efficient tool to change something promptly. Thus, by setting bylaw within an organization or the industry, Wall Street can overcome these matters. Then there should be effort to remedy fundamental problems; providing more childcare in an organization, having more flexible work environment and so force.

Trolley

In scenario1, it’s obvious that One person or Five people will be killed by the train since they are tied up, no way to escape. So my decision will be resulted in killing one person or five people. Of course, that’s a hard choice, in either way, there should be some degree of sacrifices. That being said, I would sacrifice one for five. There could be more family members for five rather than one. In addition, I don’t differentiate value of life among different individuals.  

For the scenario2, I will also make the same choice with exactly same reasons, if I were a person who is holding a lever. But I’m the one who is on the bridge, I wouldn’t push the guy holding the lever to make a choice, because I don’t want to feel guilty by influencing my opinion to the person holding decision making right. I’ll just hope that the guy will sacrifice one for five.