CHAPTER 10

SHAKE YOUR MONEYMAKER

Momentum is building and, as Gerry Laybourne said, female connectivity is contagious. It’s spreading across the globe. Links are radiating outward, breaking the barriers of business to enfold nonprofit and philanthropic circles too.

“Not only am I seeing new networks, self-created and ones that came from dust, but I’m also seeing existing networks rethinking their missions. They’re coming together to find synergies,” says Jacki Zehner, the youngest woman and first female trader ever to be named partner at Goldman Sachs. Zehner and her husband, who was also a Goldman partner, made a bundle when the firm went public in 1999, and she retired a few years later to devote herself to philanthropy—specifically, to empowering ...

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