Private equity firm TSG pursues gender equality as a competitive advantage

New York

HADLEY Mullin was already an anomaly as the only female investor at TSG Consumer Partners, the private equity firm she joined in 2004. Six months later, she found out she was pregnant.

Balancing motherhood with the demands of private equity was not the usual track in an industry overwhelmingly dominated by men. But even after Ms Mullin nervously told the TSG partners her news, they did something unexpected: they promoted her. And they kept promoting her, three children later.