Priya Karani, Director on Equity Derivatives Trading Desk, Barclays
NEW YORK (Reuters) - As a biomedical engineering student at Duke University, Priya Karani thought she did not have the right skills to break into the heavily male-dominated field of Wall Street trading.
"I was never interested in a career in trading at a bank because I didn’t know it was an option," Karani said.
A decade later, Karani is a director at Barclays PLC in New York where she trades healthcare derivatives and helps the bank's effort to attract more women to trading by talking to female college students about her job.
Despite such efforts Karani still represents a small minority since few women apply for jobs in trading, deterred by its decades-old reputation as an "alpha-male territory" and misconceptions about skills it requires.
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