Wall Street Women by Melissa S. Fisher

By Melissa S. Fisher

Wall road ladies tells the tale of the 1st iteration of ladies to set up themselves as pros on Wall highway. because those girls, who begun their careers within the Nineteen Sixties, confronted blatant discrimination and boundaries to development, they created formal and casual institutions to reinforce one another's careers. during this vital old ethnography, Melissa S. Fisher attracts on fieldwork, archival study, and broad interviews with a really profitable cohort of first-generation Wall road ladies. She describes their expert and political institutions, so much significantly the monetary Women's organization of recent York urban and the Women's crusade Fund, a bipartisan workforce shaped to advertise the election of pro-choice women.

Fisher charts the evolution of the women's careers, the expansion in their political and monetary clout, adjustments of their views and the cultural weather on Wall highway, and their stories of the 2008 monetary cave in. whereas lots of the pioneering topics of Wall road Women didn't perform the women's circulate because it used to be occurring within the Nineteen Sixties and Nineteen Seventies, Fisher argues that they did produce a "market feminism" which aligned liberal feminist beliefs approximately meritocracy and gender fairness with the good judgment of the market.

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