And she’s the author of a new book, out next week, called “She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street.” Marketplace’s David Brancaccio spoke with Bren about her new book.

In the 1950s, a securities analyst found herself climbing the fire escape of a private club to attend her own presentation on stocks; the club that invited her banned women from entering.

When women first arrived on Wall Street in the 1950s and ‘60s, there was a playbook they were expected to follow if they wanted any chance of success. “Wall Street” was still centered around ...

Even on Wall Street, where men dominate most firms, the lack of women at Goldman’s highest levels has been a sore point internally. No woman has ever been appointed to the role of chair ...

The founders of Black Women's Wall Street in Texas focus on uplifting fellow entrepreneurs of their diverse background. The leaders of Black Women’s Wall Street are taking charge as they push ...

JaCoi Pugh runs the Black Women's Wall Street. She says its her "God-given" assignment to empower other black women to build wealth, especially single mothers. "It was started it at my kitchen ...

In their book, The Wolves of K Street ... a nearly four-decade-long stretch in which the corporate capitalists of Wall Street, Big Pharma, and Silicon Valley exercised as much control of the ...

Paulina Bren, a historian and professor at Vassar College, is the author of “She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street" published on Sept. 17 by Norton, from which this essay is ...