[lbo-talk] wingwomen.com

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>In NY, Money Can't Buy Love But Gets a Foot in Door
>
>Tue Nov 23, 8:39 AM ET
>
>NEW YORK (Reuters) - For $50 an hour, Meredith sips cocktails with 
>well-heeled men who dream of getting lucky. But Meredith is no 
>escort and certainly no prostitute: She's a "wing woman."
>
>Meredith, 28, works by day at a top investment bank in New York. But 
>for the past few months she has also been moonlighting at a 
>different trade -- accompanying men, too busy or too shy to meet 
>women, to bars to make connections.
>
>Meredith works for Wingwomen.com, a three-month-old service aimed at 
>men who are tired of trying to figure out the best way to approach 
>that attractive female across the room. For a fee starting at $150, 
>they offer the company of a girl whose charms might help attract 
>others.
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>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&e=17&u=/nm/life_wingwomen_dc

So, every hour she works, Meredith gives Wingwomen.com $100+!  Why 
doesn't she "wing-woman" on her own, earning $150+ rather than $50 an 
hour?  Moreover, why does she need a second job when she "works by 
day at a top investment bank in New York"?  Are women investment 
bankers so poorly paid or is her job at the bank a dead-end 
female-ghetto job?

Yoshie