Sheila Bair Banking Supervision to adopt strong capital and leverage standards. In a fictional TV movie about the crises, Patricia Randell played Bair in the 2011 HBO movie "Too Big to Fail", based on the popular book of the same name by "New York Times" journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin. In 2009, Bair was named one of "Time" magazine's "Time 100" most influential people. In 2008, Bair topped "The Wall Street Journal's" annual 50 "Women to Watch List." In 2008 and 2009, "Forbes" ranked her as the second most powerful woman in the world behind German chancellor Angela Merkel. "Forbes" described her FDIC
Women in venture capital Women in venture capital Women in venture capital or "VC" are investors who provide venture capital funding to startups. Women make up a small (usually less than 10%) fraction of the venture capital private equity workforce. A widely used source for tracking the number of women in venture capital is the Midas List which has been published by "Forbes" since 2001. One of the first women to make the list, Annette Campbell-White, has been cited as an example of discrimination in venture capital. She was mentioned in the Midas List for three consecutive years, from 2005-2007. She claimed that a