Why Barron’s launched a list of influential women in finance

Reshma Kapadia

Russell Sherman of the “Press Profiles” podcast interviewed Reshma Kapadia of Barron’s, an associate editor who was part of the team that helped launch Barron’s annual “100 Most Influential Women in US Finance.”

Kapadia same that the list originated about six years ago to give women more spotlight who were also influential and setting trends and policy decisions.

“We’ve seen women increasingly in these roles,” said Kapadia. “This is an industry that has been dominated by men.”

The list has helped broaden Barron’s reach and audience, she added.

She said there have been more chief financial officers and economists on the list in the last couple of years.

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.