Jenny Just, co-founder of Peak6 Investments, made a fortune in the high-risk world of options trading, and did so against the odds in a male-dominated industry. Not much has changed.
Just says when she was on the Chicago Board Options Exchange floor in the early 90s she was one of the few women. “It’s not wildly different today,” she said at the recent CNBC Disruptor 50 Summit.
There are still far too few women in finance and fintech overall,…