Paulina Bren

Jan 7, 2025 | newsismybusiness.com | Paulina Bren

By Paulina Brenc.2024, W.W. Norton $29.99384 pagesYou can’t. Is that like a red flag to a bull, or what? For someone to tell you that you can’t, when you know fully well that you can, is a guaranteed challenge, a sure sign that you’re going to march right up and do that thing. As Paulina Bren explores in her new book “She-Wolves,” you know they’re wrong.

Dec 4, 2024 | brooklyndigest.org | Paulina Bren |Jason Schott

She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall StreetBy Paulina BrenW.W. Norton & Company; hardcover, 384 pages; $29.99Paulina Bren is a writer and award-winning historian who teaches at Vassar College on the Pittsburgh Endowment Chair in the Humanities. Her first book was The Barbizon: The Hotel That Set Women Free, and it was a bestseller and a New York Times Editor's Choice.

Oct 12, 2024 | bookreporter.com | Paulina Bren

Outrageous fortunes are made through the buying and selling of stocks on Wall Street. The trading floors are active whether the prices for financial instruments are high (bullish) or are engaged in a sharp decline (bearish). Throughout much of its early existence, Wall Street was dominated by men. There were a variety of firms with their own exclusivity in terms of hiring practices such as Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs.

Oct 3, 2024 | spearswms.com | Paulina Bren

What did the women who poured out of the New York City subways in the 1960s, the secretaries and teletypists and data-entry clerks, encounter as they emerged on to Wall Street, the air scented with the smell of the sea and the nearby coffee roasters?

Sep 26, 2024 | wsj.com | Paulina Bren

To Bernadette Murphy, coming from the nautically tinged neighborhood of City Island in the Bronx, Wall Street’s harbor salt air smelled like home. Yet working as an assistant in a trading department in the late ‘50s, taking trade orders and writing letters for her firm’s partners, she also was in hostile territory. She found herself fending off men in the office who offered her trips to Paris or a new wardrobe in return for sexual favors.