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What's driving the market failure for women investors? Andrea Turner Moffitt, a leading thinker on women and investing, cracks the code on how to fully harness the power of the purse, offering a roadmap full of tactics for winning with the biggest growth market: women. Using a wealth of hard data--including findings from nationwide surveys and dozens of focus groups and interviews with female investors from New York to London to Hong Kong--Harness the Power of the Purse reveals compelling insights on the female investor market. The book also draws on in-depth interviews with top advisors and forward-thinking leaders to reveal how they are spearheading innovative solutions. Whether you're a women investor looking to flex your financial muscle or an industry advisor or leader committed to building gender smarts, Harness the Power of the Purse is a vital resource for turbo-charging growth and closing the gap for women investors.

THE CENTER FOR TALENT INNOVATION (CTI) is an NYC-based think tank which focuses on global talent strategies and the retention and acceleration of well-qualified labor across the divides of gender, generation, geography, and culture. CTI’s research partners now number 86 multinational corporations and organizations.

What do women want? Black women and white aspire to excel, empower others, and earn well in their careers, but confront different hurdles in pursuit of these goals, as they have started the race from different gates. Progress for all women, we posit, depends on first recognizing their differences. In this book we show how history accounts for both the invisibility that keeps black women from attaining power as well as the ambivalence that constrains white women from pursuing it--offering strategies to help every woman fulfill her ambitions.