"Wall Street Women "tells the story of the first generation of
women to establish themselves as professionals on Wall Street.
Since these women, who began their careers in the 1960s, faced
blatant discrimination and barriers to advancement, they created
formal and informal associations to bolster one another's careers.
In this important historical ethnography, Melissa S. Fisher draws
on fieldwork, archival research, and extensive interviews with a
very successful cohort of first-generation Wall Street women. She
describes their professional and political associations, most
notably the Financial Women's Association of New York City and the
Women's Campaign Fund, a bipartisan group formed to promote the
election of pro-choice women.
Fisher charts the evolution of the women's careers, the growth
of their political and economic clout, changes in their
perspectives and the cultural climate on Wall Street, and their
experiences of the 2008 financial collapse. While most of the
pioneering subjects of "Wall Street Women" did not participate in
the women's movement as it was happening in the 1960s and 1970s,
Fisher argues that they did produce a "market feminism" which
aligned liberal feminist ideals about meritocracy and gender equity
with the logic of the market.
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