Patricia Lizarraga is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of the Hypatia Women CEO Index & ETF (ticker: WCEO), impact investing in American public companies with women CEOs under the thesis that women leaders tend to outperform their male counterparts at the highest executive level. Yet, only 10% of CEOs at Fortune 500 companies are currently women. On this episode of the Good Standing podcast, we discuss exactly why the obstacles and barriers women have to uniquely navigate better prepare them for the CEO role. We examine the complicated portrayal of women CEOs in recent films like Babygirl (2024) and Bugonia (2025) and the emergence of a potential zeitgeist concerning this perceived archetype, tracing back to Hypatia (believed to be born around 350 AD) herself. Patricia Lizarraga has over 30 years of Wall Street experience, at firms including Allen & Co; Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, and Citi, and has been focused on investing in women since 2007. Ms. Lizarraga Chair’s the Audit Committee for Credicorp, Ltd. and Banco de Credito del Peru, the largest financial conglomerate and universal bank in Peru, respectively, and she is a Trustee of the Museum of Art of Lima. She boasts an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Yale University.