First came the secretaries from Brooklyn and Queens, the ‘smart cookies’ who learned on the job. Then came the first Harvard Business School grads, who, despite their hard-earned diplomas, were told to settle for less. Eventually came the yuppies of the 1980s in their classic power suits. In She Wolves , award-winning historian Paulina Bren tells the inside story of the first generations of women who fought their way into the bad-boy culture & 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 & racism were the norm, 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.
