Tales from the Boom-Boom Room

<p>In the 1990s women in record numbers looked to Wall Street as a great place to build successful and lucrative careers.What many of them found there was not meritocracy but a boy's club of misbehaving stockbrokers and a workplace culture that knew no bounds in its harassment and discriminating behavior toward women. Sometimes it was threatening language; other times it was physical intimidation; but often it was much worse. Eventually women who were subjected to this behavior exploited a loophole in stock-exchange rules and opened the door to unprecedented lawsuits that shook Wall Street to its very core.<p>Taking its title from the notorious party room at Smith Barney's Garden City New York branch <em>Tales from the Boom-Boom Room</em> is the detailed and riveting insider account of the lewd and obscene behavior that has run rampant on Wall Street. In this edition author Susan Antilla provides a new afterword maintaining that despite some improvements in workplace conditions women continue to face an uphill battle on Wall Street.