The Women's Current
The Women's Current
Sylvia Beckerman & Molly Wadzeck
She Wolves of Wall Street with Paulina Bren
44 minutes Posted Sep 24, 2024 at 10:25 pm.
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Her novel The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free could have been the precursor to her newly released 'She Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street.' As author and historian Paulina Bren told me, she 'followed the women out of the Barbizon Hotel in New York to Wall Street' from the late 1950s and 1960s to 9/11, Women looking for interim work, found their way to Wall Street. Out of the three jobs that were available to women: receptionist, secretary or clerk, Wall Street paid the most. And so began the entry of the She Wolves of Wall Street. The men were the brokers making the money, the women were their support staff. The women were watching and learning. Wall Street was being manned by women!