On Monday, November 23 our group got to interview someone I know very well, my mom Susie Scher. Not only is Susie my mom but she is also the Managing Director and Head of Investment Grade Capital Markets at Goldman Sachs. This basically means that she advises big companies on how to raise money in the Capital Markets for things like buying other companies, building plans, hiring new employees, growing a business, keeping their business going, etc. She has clients like Walmart, Apple, Google, big health care companies, etc. Susie is very high up in Goldman Sachs. She is a partner and has been working there for about 20 years. We talked to her about the glass ceiling and how women can only get so far. She said that some women get as high as they can but very few break the glass ceiling. Sure, there are women that are very high up in their business but there are very few to none who actually own businesses. There are very few woman CEO’s and when there are, the majority are white women. Susie is very well respected at Goldman Sachs. She works very hard but still hasn’t broken the glass ceiling. She has her head against the glass ceiling but can’t seem to break it, even for all of her hard work. She travels to California for one meeting then comes back on the red eye. She goes to china but doesn’t get to visit places, all she does for a week there is work. She is a great speaker and has many interviews. After all of this she has only cracked the glass ceiling. We had a very fun and interesting conversation with Susie and learned a lot about women in the work place and how they are treating and seen.
