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Early on in “She-Wolves: The Untold History of Women on Wall Street,” author and historian Paulina Bren sets the scene of a consequential spring day in In it, 24 people — brokers and merchants, men of means — gather under a buttonwood tree outside 68 Wall St.

Here, they sign a document outlining rules for trading stocks: de facto birthing the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and establishing Lower Manhattan, as Bren writes, “as the beating heart of American capitalism.”

The men who wrote and signed the Buttonwood Agreement, for all of their ambition and belief in the great potential for the future, simply could not conceive of the idea that women would one day engage in this financial world they had created.

Centuries later, Muriel “Mickie” Siebert, the first woman to own a seat on the NYSE, would discover this truth in a frank, telling way: on the members’ lunc