Why gender inequality in financial advice is no joke

There's an old gag about the shortest-ever interview for a job in human resources. Apologies if you've heard it before. It goes like this… Interviewer: "Can you handle change?" Candidate: "Well, I prefer notes." Maybe the framing falls a bit flat nowadays, in this age of a near-cashless society. But the misunderstanding of what change really means is as relevant as ever. Change is what HR is all about – or at least what HR should be about. Yet it's easy to fall into the trap of thinking things will somehow change by themselves, as if moved by a mysterious force beyond our compre...