Consider the following pieces of information:
A.According to Bonnie Reyes, president and chief operating officer of Better Investing, a national organization of investment clubs, women have traditionally made up about 60 percent of the membership of investment clubs.By contrast, less than a third of team-managed mutual funds on Wall Street have even one woman on the management team.
B.Research conducted by professors E.Brooke Harrington and Max Planck concluded that mixed investment clubs, on average, outperformed the typical single-sex investment club.
C.The lack of gender diversity in Wall Street could be influenced by its reputation, according to professor Harrington, "for being inhospitable to women."
Source: Michael Hulbert, "Strategies: At some Funds, a Gender Communications Gap," The New York Times, October 7, 2007, Sunday Money, page 5.
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The information presented suggests a negative feedback loop, where the lack of gender diversity on Wall Street could be due to its reputation for being inhospitable to women, which results in less than a third of team-managed mutual funds having even one woman on the management team. This lack of diversity then perpetuates the negative reputation, creating a cycle that is difficult to break. Additionally, the research suggests that mixed investment clubs outperform single-sex clubs on average, highlighting the potential benefits of diversity.

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