2023-11-06 17:00:01

A billionaire female financier on why your daughters should learn to playpoker

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Key Points

  • Jenny Just, options trader and co-founder of financial firm Peak6 Investments, says watching her daughter learn to play poker opened her eyes to the wide-ranging benefits of the card game.
  • From strategic thinking to confidence building, she says learning poker can be a significant source of real-world education for young women to overcome persistent gender bias in the professional world.

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.

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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, she says, yet she adds, There is no reason women can't be equal at the job of allocating money.

But it's not to the CBOE floor which she conquered that Jut looks to now when thinking about how to prepare girls for a professional world in which the chips are still stacked against them. It's poker. And she came to the card game as a form of education for girls accidentally.

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