“85 Broads” Invests In Women

Source: CBS Evening News
February 12, 2007

(CBS) “When somebody says, ‘Well, what do you invest in?’ I could say, ‘Well, you know, I own stocks or bonds or mutual funds,’ but I say that I have invested in other women,” Janet Hanson says.

Hanson knows a good investment when she sees one, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric reports. For fourteen years, she worked at the Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs, and became the firm’s first female sales manager and eventually, vice president. But when Hanson quit to be a stay-at-home mom, she realized she was missing a lot more than her six-figure salary.

“I felt really cut off. And I felt a horrible sense of disconnection,” she says, adding that she got very depressed.  “And so I made a little promise to myself that if I ever kind of got it together, that I would start a network so that this didn’t happen to other women,” Hanson says. 

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