Helena Morrissey is sometimes hesitant to voice her opinion. She frequently finds herself the only woman in a group of powerful businessmen. And the chief executive of London-based money manager Newton Investment Management Ltd., with roughly $71 billion of assets under management, admits she has sometimes held back on expressing her views because of the danger of becoming "the annoying" woman in the room.
"I have been conscious of feeling that where I did have different views from the rest of the [all-male] group, I may be being perceived as the 'difficult woman' rather than being listened to for what I was saying," she says.
There has been, she says, "no evidence that the men were actually feeling that, but a doubt in my mind has caused me to hold back."
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