wall street women

[...]even though Fisher's women had witnessed some significant changes during their careers, it is clear there is still much to be done on Wall Street as, indeed, there is more generally--not just in the finance industry, but within the labour market on the whole. Despite all of this, Wall Stre...

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Published inFeminist Review Vol. 113; no. 1; pp. e18 - e20
Main Author Grady, Jo
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published London Palgrave Macmillan UK 01.07.2016
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Behavior
Business
Capitalism
Careers
Consciousness
Cultural Studies
Discourse
Economic crisis
Equality
Ethnography
Females
Feminism
Finance
Gender equity
Gender Studies
Investments
Labor market
Males
Markets
Occupations
Political Science
Professional relationships
Retirement
Risk
Sex discrimination
Social Sciences
Sociology
Theme
Wall Street
Women
Working women
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Summary:[...]even though Fisher's women had witnessed some significant changes during their careers, it is clear there is still much to be done on Wall Street as, indeed, there is more generally--not just in the finance industry, but within the labour market on the whole. Despite all of this, Wall Street itself continues to be dominated by white men, a theme that receives some attention during discussions in Chapter 6 regarding an 'emergent [post financial crisis] discourse of the feminizing and "feministing" of markets' (p. 157), of which some 'articulated a divide between masculine, greedy, risk-taking actors and behaviors ... and a more feminine, long-term approach to financial practice that could possibly help the economy avoid crisis or could fix it' (p. 158). [...]there is a suggestion in the book that, by engaging in more socially (and fiscally) responsible investment practices, the Wall Street women Fisher interviews are attempting to make capitalism work differently.
ISSN:0141-7789
1466-4380
DOI:10.1057/fr.2016.10