And if you go to sheri caplan. Com, youll see that inspiration for her writing often comes from a nice cup of tea that is by her side or a piece of chocolate. So to provide inspiration today, we present her from the museum shop a hersheys bar and we look forward to your speech. Welcome, sheri. [ applause ] thank you all for coming on this Beautiful Day and thank you to the museum for hosting this event. I put together a power point on the topic and were going to start with that and then afterwards, id be happy to take any questions. So here we go. In a word, wall street is not the place for a lady to find fortune or character. Thats what noted american banker henry clug had to say about the idea of women on wall street. Any thoughts about that . Well, what are we talking about when we talk about the subject of women and wall street . And why does it matter . I wrote this book because i wanted to read it. And it did not exist. When i first wanted to know more about this topic several ye
Good afternoon. Welcome. Hi. Im president of the museum of American Finance, the only finance museum in the nation. Our core mission is to teaching financial history and were a smithsonian affiliate. Welcome back, friends of the museum and our friends from cspan who are taping today. Today we have sheri caplan, author of petticoats and pinstripes. Portraits of women in wall street history. While this is her first book, she is no stranger to writing. She contributes to forbes, to bloomberg law, as well as other media outlets. During her research, she used some of the resources here including a finding in our collection for the image on the cover. She was a Vice President and assistant general counselled a goldman sachs, also on the securities arbitration roster of finra, financial industry regulatory authority. Her undergraduate work was at yale, her jd at the university of virginia. And if you go to sheri caplan. Com, youll see that inspiration for her writing often comes from a nice c