Petticoats and Pinstripes
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Petticoats and Pinstripes

Portraits of Women in Wall Street's History

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Petticoats and Pinstripes

Portraits of Women in Wall Street's History

About this book

This fascinating work presents biographical essays about women from the colonial period to modern times, chronicling the previously untold story of the female financial experience in the United States. Petticoats and Pinstripes: Portraits of Women in Wall Street's History provides a fascinating chronological account of the contributions of women on Wall Street through profiles of selected individuals that set their achievements in the context of the prevailing times. The book documents how women frequently assumed financial roles as a temporary palliative to the nation's ills, only to be cast aside once conditions improved, and how they were often restrained from financial endeavors by various factors, including American legal, political, economic, and cultural norms. Author Sheri J. Caplan describes the accomplishments of women in the financial world against the backdrop of the general advancement of women's rights and the evolution of gender-based roles in society, and identifies the primary factors in the development of a greater female role in finance: wartime urgency, personal necessity, technological change, and financial education.

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Information

Publisher
Praeger
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9781440802652
eBook ISBN
9781440802669
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Abbreviations
  7. PART I: Revolutionaries
  8. PART II: Pioneers
  9. PART III: Patriots and Bankers
  10. PART IV: Mavericks
  11. PART V: Icons
  12. Conclusion
  13. Appendix A: Leading Ladies
  14. Appendix B: Selected Chronology
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index