The untold story of how Patricia Walsh Chadwick became one of the first women of Wall Street

In her new book, Patricia Walsh Chadwick shares what it was like to work at the New York Stock Exchange as a woman in the 1960s and 1970s.

It was early in 1969. I was a twenty-year-old receptionist at the Boston office of Landenburg, Thalmann, an investment banking firm. Fascinated by the stock market, I had memorized the stock symbols of every company listed on the NYSE. During sporadic free moments, I would test myself by standing next to the trading desk as the stock symbols scrolled across the electronic ticker.