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

By (author) Paulina Bren

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First came the secretaries from Brooklyn and Queensâ€”the â€œsmart cookiesâ€ who saw that making money, lots of it, might be within their grasp. Then came the first female Harvard Business School graduates, who were in for a rude awakening because an equal degree did not mean equal opportunity. But by the 1980s, as the market went into turbodrive, women were being plucked from elite campuses to feed the belly of a rapidly expanding beast, playing for high stakes in Wall Streetâ€™s bad-boy culture by day and clubbing by night. In She-Wolves, award-winning historian Paulina Bren tells the story of how women infiltrated Wall Street from the swinging sixties to 9/11â€”starting at a time when â€œNo Ladiesâ€ signs hung across the doors of its luncheon clubs and (more discretely) inside its brokerage houses and investment banks. 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 â€œMickieâ€ Siebert, the first woman to buy a seat on the NYSE, threatened sheâ€™d have port-a-potties delivered if the exchange didnâ€™t finally install a ladiesâ€™ room near the dining room. The infamous 1996 Boom-Boom Room class action lawsuit, filed by women at Smith Barney, pulled back the curtain on a bawdy subculture where unapologetic sexism and racism were the norm. As engaging as it is enraging, She-Wolves is an illuminating deep dive into the collision of women, finance, and New York.

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