@article{448446,
      recid = {448446},
      author = {Fisher, Melissa S.},
      title = {Wall Street women [electronic resource] /},
      publisher = {Duke University Press,},
      address = {Durham [N.C.] :},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 227 p. :},
      year = {2012},
      abstract = {"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."--Publisher's  web site.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/448446},
}