Why so many Rich Women are media-shy Mar 11, 2021 – 12.00am Share At least seven of the business founders on 2021’s Financial Review Rich Women List have rarely or never appeared in the media, leaving it to their male partners to maintain a public profile. In a symptom of what RMIT economics professor Leonora Risse called “a society still coming to grips with embracing successful females”, there is even one self-made billionaire – 64-year-old TPG Telecom co-founder Vicky Teoh – who has never seen fit to share her story. Jamuna Gurung co-founded Melbourne Institute Of Technology, but has never been extensively interviewed. Eamon Gallagher