Tales from the Boom-Boom Room: Women vs. Wall Street

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Tales from the Boom-Boom Room: Women vs. Wall Street

In the 1990s, women in record numbers looked to Wall Street as a great place to build successful and lucrative careers. What many of them found there was no meritocracy, but an industry living by the rules of a 1960s fraternity, with the money and legal clout to silence any challenges. Award-winning columnist Susan Antilla broke the story of shocking sex discrimination at Smith Barney and other major brokers. Her disclosures in the press were a rallying cry for class actions challenging the sexual hazing and outrageous disparities in pay that shackled professional women on Wall Street.

Taking its title from the infamous basement party room of Smith Barneyâ€™s Garden City, New York, branch office, and representing years of extensive research,Â Tales from the Boom-Boom Room traces the story of the lead whistle-blower, Pam Martens, the crusading broker who put an entire industry on the defensive, then found herself at odds not just with her local bosses and with powerful figures like Travelers Group president Jamie Dimon, but with her coplaintiffs and attorneys. The womenâ€™s employment agreements forbade them to sue, and only an ingenious legal strategy circumvented that virtual gag rule and brought the scandal out from behind the closed doors of arbitration. This is a riveting human, legal, and business drama of women and men in the financial institutions on Wall Street and around America.
Country USA
Brand John Wiley & Sons
Manufacturer Bloomberg Press
Binding Hardcover
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781576600788
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	John Wiley & Sons
Manufacturer	Bloomberg Press
Binding	Hardcover
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781576600788
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Tales from the Boom-Boom Room: Women vs. Wall Street

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