Romney’s LBO World Is Boys’ Club With Women in 8.1% of Top Jobs
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Rhonda Ryan didn’t meet many other women when she broke into the private-equity business 15 years ago. Today, she’s still the rare female executive in an industry pushed into the spotlight by the presidential campaign of Mitt Romney, co-founder of buyout firm Bain Capital LLC.
“I’ll often have meetings with a group of fund managers where I’ll be the only female in the room,” Ryan, who manages more than $1.3 billion of assets at PineBridge Investments in London, said in a telephone interview.