I’m sure that imposter syndrome – feeling like you don’t belong in your job – is something that we have all experienced at some point in our lives, particularly during the start of our careers.
That worry is intensified by feelings of isolation and not seeing yourself in your own industry and feeling like you don’t belong would certainly contribute to this.
I don’t find the push back against female advisers’ issues offensive, instead I simply find it baffling; I really can’t envisage correcting someone sharing an opinion using knowledge and experience I simply could not possess.
It may be that this is just a very contentious issue, which I won’t deny, or that appealing to these kinds of personal accounts means lacking access to objective evidence, which I imagine can be difficult.
However, this is an issue that is not going to go away and if we are going to improve the advice industry, making it more accepting and producing better advice across the board, this is not something that can be disregarded.
Tom Dunstan is a senior reporter at FT Adviser
tom.dunstan@ft.com
