By Rebecca Barshop “No young lady has ever asked me to do that before,” he said.
I was proud of myself and insulted simultaneously.
That day, I had called my financial advisor to ask if he could reinvest the dividends for one of the stocks in my account. I had recently learned about DRIPs, or dividend reinvestment plans, at my job at The Oxford Club. And I thought, “Hey, it’s worth a shot.”
It took just a few minutes to set up on his end, and then I hung up the phone. Why had no one told me about this earlier?
That’s easy.
I’m a woman.
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