This document summarizes the history of women on Wall Street from the 18th century to present day. It discusses some of the first women investors like Abigail Adams in the 1700s and restrictions women faced under coverture laws. It then outlines milestones for women's rights and increasing participation in finance, including Victoria Woodhull opening the first woman-owned brokerage in 1870, and Muriel Siebert becoming the first woman to own a seat on the NYSE in 1967. The document highlights continued barriers women faced and progress made through organizations advocating for gender equality in business.

1. Dara Albright, NowStreet Founder

2. “Women Who Shaped Wall Street”

4. NO women on Wall Street (women did not work outside the home)

5. Abigail Adams, Wife of John Adams

6. Abigail Adams, Wife of John Adams John Adams, 2nd U.S. President

7. Abigail Adams, Wife of John Adams John Adams, 2nd U.S. President

8. Abigail Adams, Wife of John Adams John Adams, 2nd U.S. President
24 % on Bond Investments

9. Abigail Adams, Wife of John Adams John Adams, 2nd U.S. President
24 % on Bond Investments 2 % from Real Estate Investments

10. John Adam’s House
(Women could not own property)
Coverture was a legal doctrine whereby, upon marriage, a woman's legal
rights were subsumed by those of her husband.

11. This was at a time when women still wore Bustles and Corsets

12. Corset Bustle

13. Victoria Woodhull – Worked for
Women’s right to vote

14. Victoria Woodhull – Worked for Friends and co-worker with
Women’s right to vote Susan B. Anthony

15. Victoria Woodhull – In 1870 opened Financed by Cornelius Vanderbilt
the first woman-owned Brokerage

16. Victoria Woodhull – In 1872 ran Susan B. Anthony – Said women
for President should be allowed to vote

17. Victoria Woodhull – Arrested a few Susan B. Anthony – Arrested for voting
days before the 1872 election In the same 1872 Presidential election

18. Women wanted to vote, property rights, and reproductive rights.

19. Hetty Green – . As a child, she read the financial pages to her father, and
by the time she was 14, she stated that she knew “as much about finance
as any man.” Unlike many women in her day, she managed her own money,
and turned her comfortable inheritance into a fortune.

20. Hetty Green – The “World’s Greatest Miser” – Guinness Book of Records
Richest woman in the world at the time - $200 million.

21. Hetty Green – The “Witch of Wall Street”
One obituary for Green noted that “many of her personality traits would have been
considered unremarkable if they had been found in a man.”

22. Susan B. Anthony died in 1906, Women still could not vote. This
protest at the White House on July 14, 1917 resulted in 16 arrests.

23. Protests continued

24. Protests continued

25. Any Wall Street jobs for women were simple and undesirable.

26. Finally, on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment was passed that allowed women to vote.

27. Finally, on August 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment was passed that allowed women to vote.

28. During the “roaring twenties” things were looking up….

29. Isabell Benham - Working for years for a boss whom she said “made life difficult,”
Benham went on to become one of the most distinguished railroad analysts on
Wall Street and the first woman to be named partner at a Wall Street bond house.

30. Isabell Benham at 100 in 2009 -
Isabell Benham - Working for years for a boss whom she said “made life difficult,”
Benham went on to become one of the most distinguished railroad analysts on
Wall Street and the first woman to be named partner at a Wall Street bond house.

32. Betty Freidan’s 1963 book became a sensation—creating a social revolution by
dispelling the myth that all women wanted to be happy homemakers. Friedan
encouraged women to seek new opportunities for themselves.

33. Betty Freidan – Founded National Organization for Women in 1966. She also
fought for abortion rights by establishing the National Association for the
Repeal of Abortion Laws (now known as NARAL Pro-Choice America).

34. Trading Floor

35. Muriel Siebert – December 28, 1967 –First woman to obtain a seat on the
New York Stock Exchange – She had trouble getting the loan for the $445,000

36. August 26, 1970 – 50 Years after the right to vote

40. “An attractive girl with hazel eyes and ash-blonde hair…It is distracting to have such
a pretty girl – a trim 5 feet 3 inches tall in a size 7 dress….”

41. Terms: “Sexist” and “Sexism” – first used in 1968

42. The Problem

43. The Illusion

44. Muriel Siebert – First woman to own a seat on the New York Stock Exchange
http://video.answers.com/muriel-siebert-first-lady-of-wall-street-517470734

45. In 1990 Muriel Siebert created the Siebert Entrepreneurial Philanthropic Plan,
through which she shares half of her firm's profits from new securities underwriting
with charities of the issuers' choices. The program offers buyers of new securities a
chance to help charities in their communities. Through 2006, more than $5 million
has been contributed through this program.

46. As investors, men are more often looking for a quick “pop”

47. Women are more conservative, longer term investors

48. Would “Lehman Sisters” have failed?

49. Male-dominated Wall Street has not fully accepted women as equals
in running major institutions, there are nevertheless many powerful
women who have overcome prejudice and proven their capabilities...

57. Ellen Philip, CEO Ellen Philip Associates

58. “We may soon need affirmative action for men….”
Michelle D. Bernard, CEO and President,
Bernard Center for Women, Politics & Public Policy

59. Dara Albright, NowStreet Founder