From history and all these pictures and paintings and all that, statues, and there were no women. I started to think maybe there werent any women than. What do you think . [laughter] do think there were any women around the time of the declaration of independence and the constitution and all that . You do . Do think there were actual women . Probably. I did start to think about the and thought, well, adam and eve. There were women then. Although my favorite Bumper Sticker is eve was framed. [laughter] of course living here and growing up your, i did go to mount vernon all the time, so i did know that there was somebody named Martha Washington. But that was about it. To you all know anything about Martha Washington . Go ahead. She was married to George Washington but did she do anything herself . Is anybody know . Go ahead. [inaudible] she cheered up the soldiers at valley forge. Thats exactly what i knew about Martha Washington. Is that she spent a winter at valley forge with the soldi
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
Thank you very much. So, you get to get out of school, come to the bookstore which has been on saturday night live and the president came to this bookstore, so this is a very special place, and special for me to be here too. Im very pleased. Im also especially pleased to talk to you about the great women because when i was a kid growing up, and well into my time as an adult, i have looked at all these stories from history and pictures and paintings and all that statues, and there were no women, and i started to think, maybe there were not women then. What duty . Do you think there were women at the time of the declaration of independence and constitution at this time . You do . Probably. You know, i did start to think about it and think, well, maybe, adam eve, there was women then. Although the favorite sticker is eve was framed. Of course, living here and growing up here, i did go to mount vernon all the time, and i knew there was somebody named Martha Washington, but that was it. Do