We arranged for trained undercover men and women to pose as potential clients and visit all 65 local financial advisory firms in Hong Kong, China. At financial planning firms, but not at securities firms, women were more likely than men to receive advice to buy only individual or only local...

Over recent decades, the researcher's interest in women empowerment (WE) has grown stronger and WE have become a prominent topic of discussion in business and management studies. Despite the large amount of work in this direction, the topic is itself somewhat unclear in terms of the shared...

We arranged for trained undercover men and women to pose as potential clients and visit all 65 local financial advisory firms in Hong Kong, China. At financial planning firms, but not at securities firms, women were more likely than men to receive advice to buy only individual or only local...