She-Wolves - The Untold History of Women on Wall Street

Introducing the Women of Wall Street . . . First came the secretaries who struggled to get past the typing pool. Then came the first Harvard Business School grads who were laughed out of interviews. But by the 1980s, with markets in turbo-drive, women were playing for high stakes in Wall Street''s bad-boy culture by day and clubbing by night. In She Wolves , award-winning historian Paulina Bren tells the inside story of how women infiltrated Wall Street, from the swinging sixties - a time when ''No Ladies'' signs hung across the doors of its luncheon clubs and (more discretely) inside its brokerage houses and investment banks - up to 9/11. If the wolves of Wall Street made a show of their ferocity, the she wolves did so with subtlety and finesse. Research analysts signed their reports with genderless initials. Muriel ''Mickie'' Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, threatened to have portaloos delivered if a ladies'' toilet wasn''t installed. And the infamous 1996 ''Boom-Boom Room'' class-action lawsuit, filed by women at Smith Barney, exposed a bawdy subculture where unapologetic sexism and racism were the norm. As engaging as it is enraging, She Wolves is a fascinating behind-the-scenes deep dive into the collision of women, finance and New York.

About the author

Paulina Bren is an award-winning historian and professor at Vassar College, where she teaches international, gender, and media studies. She is the author of the acclaimed The Barbizon: The New York Hotel That Set Women Free and lives in New York City.

Product details

• Authors: Paula Bren, Paulina Bren, Bren Paulina
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.09.2024
• EAN: 9781399800938
• ISBN: 978-1-399-80093-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 230 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Business: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Economics, finance, business & management, Economics, Finance, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate Finance / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, Feminism and feminist theory, Finance and the finance industry