She Wolves

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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.

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They cracked the glass ceiling and changed the face of finance.

The untold story of the women who took on Wall Street.

Long before gender diversity became a corporate buzzword, a generation of women quietly infiltrated one of the world’s most exclusive – and male-dominated – clubs: Wall Street.

From the typing pools of the 1960s to the trading floors of the 1980s, these women navigated a brash, bawdy world that was built to exclude them. Along the way, they challenged entrenched sexism and racism, reshaping the financial industry from the inside out.

She Wolves is a vivid portrait of the women who dared to dream big, who re-wrote the rules and shook the foundations of power.

From the award-winning author of The Barbizon

‘Vivid . . . Riveting’ LIZA MUNDY, author of Code Girls

‘Fascinating . . . Gorgeous’ AMY ODELL, author of Anna

Praise for The Barbizon
‘Captivating . . . a brilliant many-layered social history of women’s ambition’ Observer

‘Fascinating . . . a piece of forgotten female history’ Sunday Times

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Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 cm
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Paperback
Pages

384
Language

English
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Dewey

332.1082097471 (edition:23)
Readership

College – higher education / Code: F

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