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She Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street by Paulina Bren
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Category: History
Introducing the Women of Wall Street . . . First came the secretaries who struggled to get past the typing pool. Then came the first Harvard Business School grads who were laughed out of interviews. But by the 1980s, with markets in turbo-drive, women were playing for high stakes in Wall Street's bad-b ...Show more
The Barbizon by Paulina Bren
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Category: History
AS HEARD ON RADIO 4 WOMAN'S HOUR 'Captivating ... a brilliant many-layered social history of women's ambition and a rapidly changing New York' Observer 'A fascinating look at a piece of forgotten female history' Sunday Times 'A treat, elegantly spinning a forgotten story of female liberation, ambition a ...Show more
The Barbizon - The New York hotel that set women free by Paulina Bren
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Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
Built in 1927, New York's Barbizon Hotel was first intended as a home for the 'Modern Woman' seeking a career in the arts. It became the place to stay for ambitious, independent women, who were lured by the promise of fame and good fortune. Sylvia Plath fictionalized her time there in The Bell Jar, and ...Show more
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