Selling Women Short:
Gender and Money on Wall Street
Louise Marie Roth

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ADDITIONAL REVIEWS:

"[T]his is a highly teachable book that could be assigned in economics, business, labor, and women's studies courses at either the undergraduate or graduate levels. . . . The combination of the academic study with the journalistic account should lead to a spirited discussion among students of the ways in which the structures of organizations allow people to realize opportunity or limit their success."--Swan Yohn, Feminist Economics

ADDITIONAL ENDORSEMENTS:

"Louise Marie Roth provides a thorough analysis of sex discrimination on Wall Street, with implications far beyond the financial sector."--Martha Burk, National Council of Women's Organizations

"A fascinating (and depressing) account of what goes on on Wall Street. The personal histories and reports of experience are vivid and carry the story well."--Lotte Bailyn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, author of Breaking the Mold: Redesigning Work for Productive and Satisfying Lives

"This first-rate work is poised to join a small circle of influential books tackling the question of how gender inequality persists amid the avowedly merit-based segments of the American economy. Clearly presented and written in an engaging style, Selling Women Short is the only book I have seen that compares 'successful' and 'derailed' women and men, thus making it possible to disentangle the influence of gender from other, more 'gender neutral' factors that shape the career trajectories of workers in high-powered jobs."--Kathleen Gerson, New York University, coauthor of The Time Divide: Work, Family, and Gender Inequality

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