She-wolves : the untold history of women on Wall Street / Paulina Bren

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bren, Paulina, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in finance.

Securities industry--United States.

Securities industry.

Finance--New York (State)--New York.

Finance.

Wall Street (New York, N.Y.).

Genre:

Informational works.

Biography.

Biographies.

Physical Description:

373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2024]

Summary:

"First came the secretaries from Brooklyn and Queens--the "smart cookies" who learned on the job despite the obstacles. Then came the first Harvard Business School grads, who, despite their hard-earned diplomas, often settled for less. Eventually came the yuppies of the 1980s in power suits and commuter sneakers. In She-Wolves, award-winning historian Paulina Bren tells the story of the first generations of women who fought their way into the bad-boy culture and lavish opulence of the finance world. If the wolves of Wall Street made a show of their ferocity, the she-wolves did so with tough-as-nails persistence. Starting at a time when "No Ladies" signs hung across the doors of Wall Street's clubs and unapologetic sexism and racism were the norm at top firms, Bren chronicles the remarkable women who demanded a seat at the table. She-Wolves is an engaging and enraging look at the collision of women, finance, and New York from the go-go years to ground zero"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue

Jamming a foot in the door

Breaching a wall

Mickie and the gunslingers

W.I.T.C.H. on Wall Street

Rukeyser's elves

Zero point for "intelligence"

The Pinto decade

Floor queens and an arb king

Power play

Yuppiedom

Mamma Mia!

What goes up must come down

R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

B*tch

Ground zero

Postscript

Acknowledgments

Notes

Image credits

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-356) and index.

ISBN:

1324035153

9781324035152

OCLC:

1418888448