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

This is an in-person program.

In She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street, Paulina Bren tells the story of how women infiltrated Wall Street starting in the swinging sixties, when "No Ladies" signs hung across the doors of its luncheon clubs and, more discreetly, inside the brokerage houses and investment banks, up until 9/11.

First came the ambitious secretaries who saw that making money might be within their grasp, then came the first female Harvard Business School graduates, who soon discovered an equal degree did not mean equal opportunity. By the 1980s, as markets went into turbodrive, women were being recruited from elite campuses to join in the high-stakes culture of the wolves of Wall Street. As engaging as it is enraging, the stories in She-Wolves offer an illuminating deep dive into the collision of women, finance, and New York. After Bren's talk, she'll be joined by Museum director and architecture historian Carol Willis to discuss how lower Manhattan's Financial District was the stage for a new set of actors.

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Paulina Bren

Paulina Bren is a writer and award-winning historian who teaches at Vassar College on the Pittsburgh Endowment Chair in the Humanities. She is the author of the best-selling book The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free (Simon & Schuster, 2022). Her latest book, named top ten best non-fiction books of 2024 by the Kirkus Review, is She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street (W.W. Norton & Company, 2024).