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Amy Siskind is a national spokesperson, writer and expert on helping women and girls advance and succeed. A highly successful Wall Street executive, she's Co-founder and President of The New Agenda, a national organization working on issues including economic independence and advancement, gender representation and bias, sexual assault and domestic violence. Some of her television and radio appearances include: CNN, Fox News, CNBC, PBS, TheStreet.com, NPR, Marketplace Radio and American Morning News Radio. A frequent source for national press, Siskind has been quoted in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, POLITICO, U.S. News & World Report, RealClearPolitics, the Boston Globe and The Hill.

She’s a regular featured contributor at The Huffington Post and The Daily Beast. Amy speaks on college campuses and to young women about economic empowerment, and delivers inspiration keynotes and speeches to professional women on how to succeed. She serves on Cornell University’s highly prestigious President’s Council of Cornell Women (PCCW).

A pioneer in the distressed debt trading market, she has a lifetime of experience with failure and remarkable success and knows what it takes to win. She became the first female managing director at Wasserstein Perella at the age of 31, and later ran trading departments at Morgan Stanley and Imperial Capital, where she was also a partner. She received a BA in Economics from Cornell University and an MBA in finance from the NYU Stern School of Business.

Amy Siskind is currently working on her first book about her adventures as a woman on Wall Street.

Blog Entries by Amy Siskind

Women Ruled the Night!

(147) Comments | Posted November 7, 2012 | 7:43 PM

Hell hath no fury like a women scorned. The women of our country had their say this election night. We spoke out. With our votes!

When the polls were closed, the votes tallied, women comprised a whopping 54 percent of the total votes. Women were energized this election, and here's...

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Grading Obama's First Term for Women

(179) Comments | Posted September 13, 2012 | 7:08 PM

The goal of this article is to evaluate how women and women's issues have fared during President's Obama's first term. We'll examine the entire four years in order to gauge progress and unresolved shortcomings.

Those of you who have followed my writings here and at the Daily Beast, know I...

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Get Out of Marissa Mayer's Bedroom, Already!

(19) Comments | Posted July 27, 2012 | 10:25 AM

For heaven's sake, how much longer will our media continue to obsess about Marissa Mayer's pregnancy?

In the recent 'war on women,' women demanded, "Get out of our bedrooms!" After all, it's our bodies, our business -- butt out! Paradoxically, in the 'war between women,' reignited as Yahoo's new CEO...

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Gender Armageddon and the Broken Women's Movement

(82) Comments | Posted May 30, 2012 | 6:26 PM

Lately, I've become obsessed with Girls, the new HBO series about women in their 20s. Not in a joyful way. In a worried, watching a car wreck kind of way.

Okay, I'll own it. The reason I'm mesmerized by the girls in Girls -- the hapless, aimless, tragic victims --...

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What if Goldman Sachs Was Run by 'Fiona' Blankfein?

(51) Comments | Posted April 3, 2012 | 11:05 PM

Wake up Goldman Sachs! If your firm had more women, things would be better.

In recent years, those of us on the outside have come to view Goldman Sachs as the perennial poster child for ethical lapses. But, when a departing employee -- an insider for 12 years -- writes...

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The Spring of Sexism

(545) Comments | Posted March 9, 2012 | 10:31 PM

You can thank Rush Limbaugh for the sexism revolution this spring.

His diatribe last week was the watershed. Insipid slurs meant to diminish and demean a Georgetown Law student for this offense: being a woman. More loathsome drivel on the airwaves -- a veritable war of words waged against women...

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It's the Economy, Girlfriend!

(57) Comments | Posted January 23, 2012 | 4:31 PM

"The end of 'fair' comes the day you graduate."

That's the tough reality I deliver on campuses in speeches to college women. Most shake their head in agreement. They know what lies ahead.

Yes, in 2011, for the first time in history, women surpassed men as recipients of college...

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Blaming Amy

(145) Comments | Posted November 2, 2011 | 12:35 PM

Two weeks ago today, a college friend communicated some shocking news: our sorority sister and dear friend, Amy Friedlander, was dead. Amy was part of a murder-suicide in which her two young children, and husband, with whom she was days away from finalizing a divorce, were also found dead.

The...

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What Gardasil Says About Perry's Concern for Our Daughters' Welfare

(87) Comments | Posted September 14, 2011 | 2:32 PM

During the CNN Tea Party Debate this past Monday, sparks flew over an executive order issued by Governor Rick Perry in 2007 mandating an HPV vaccination for all sixth-grade girls. At that time, Perry was the first (and only) governor to issue such an executive order, bypassing his own state...

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Is 'Feminism' Going Chapter 11?

(148) Comments | Posted June 30, 2011 | 9:51 AM

Last summer, I wrote an article here at HuffPost, Why the 'Pro-Women' Movement Should and Will Replace Feminism. Sarah Palin had just declared herself a 'conservative feminist,' while endorsing a slew of diverse women candidates and working to get them elected. I found her efforts to get more...

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The Undefeated: The Movie I Wish Hillary Had Made

(168) Comments | Posted June 6, 2011 | 10:00 AM

When the credits rolled at the end of the pre-screening of The Undefeated my first thought was this: Why didn't Hillary's advisors think of this? It was impossible for our country to know the real Hillary Rodham Clinton through the media's sexism-colored-glasses during the 2008 presidential race. The real Hillary...

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Top 10 Reasons Palin Should Run for President

(289) Comments | Posted June 3, 2011 | 9:11 AM

1) Our country has yet to elect a woman president -- a national embarrassment! Almost every country in Europe and Latin America; along with India, Israel, New Zealand, Canada, China, Pakistan, Rwanda and many other countries have been led by a woman. The UN cites: "The achievement...

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Sexual Assaults Will Continue Unless We Educate Young Men

(498) Comments | Posted April 5, 2011 | 2:04 PM

Yesterday, Vice President Biden and Secretary Duncan announced a Sexual Assault Awareness Campaign. The impetus? The Department of Education acknowledges a grave threat to this generation: 20 percent of college women will be victims of rape or sexual assault!

We live in a civilized country, after all. Who...

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Did Sexism Fell Kathleen Parker?

(174) Comments | Posted February 27, 2011 | 12:32 PM

Let's face it, CNN has a women problem. Need proof? Do the math. Last year, seven major anchors left CNN. Of the seven, five were women!

Should we therefore be at all surprised by CNN's modus operandi when ratings for Parker Spitzer hit the skids? Of course not. To...

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When a Feminist Trivializes Rape

(74) Comments | Posted December 7, 2010 | 8:59 PM

Dear Naomi Wolf,

Imagine our relief today upon reading your letter to Interpol defending Mr. Assange over the allegations against him. Those Swedes just don't understand. C'mon -- what's wrong with "using his body weight to hold her down in a sexual manner"? Or "deliberately...

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How the GOP Blew it on the Paycheck Fairness Act -- and Who the Biggest Cowards Were

(624) Comments | Posted November 17, 2010 | 9:17 PM

Well, it didn't take long. The Republican Party was handed a historic opportunity with women. For the first time since the advent of exit polling data in 1982, women voters favored the GOP in the 2010 election. A rather shocking occurrence given that just two short years ago,...

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Why Hillary's Army Should Rally Around Meg Whitman

(428) Comments | Posted October 13, 2010 | 10:10 PM

Jerry Brown just doesn't get it.

During Tuesday night's California gubernatorial debate, moderator Tom Brokaw asked Brown about a member of his staff using the word "whore" in reference to Meg Whitman:

BROKAW:.. We've heard no outrage from you about the use of that kind of language which...
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Dem Women Revolt in Obama's "Liberal Dude Nation"

(260) Comments | Posted September 28, 2010 | 10:34 PM

President Obama sure is angry. He scolded Democrats today, telling us that our apathy is "inexcusable" and "irresponsible". Really? If you want inexcusable try this: turning the Democratic Party into "Liberal Dude Nation." Converting 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue into a veritable frat house with few women leaders...

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Kudlow and Me

(65) Comments | Posted September 19, 2010 | 8:07 PM

I battled Larry Kudlow on his show, CNBC's The Kudlow Report, over the Paycheck Fairness Act. Larry thinks women are doing just fine. After all, a newly released Bureau of Labor Statistics report shows the gender pay gap closing. Women now earn, on average, 83% of...

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Introducing "Sexism Ed"

(8) Comments | Posted September 16, 2010 | 12:06 PM

The most prevalent, yet least well understood bias remaining in our country is sexism.

Eradicating sexism will take more than just occasional activism. We also need to educate the public on what sexism is and why it hurts our country.

Today, The New Agenda launches our "Sexism Ed"...

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