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Witness History

First Women on the London Stock Exchange

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2018

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

London's Stock Exchange, one of the world's oldest, welcomed women as members for the first time in March 1973. It meant they could earn much more money, as partners in their firms. It also meant they were finally allowed to cross the famous trading floor. Hilary Pearson told Claire Bowes how she and a handful of other women made their way in a very traditional man's world.

Photo: One of the first women to be admitted to the floor of the London Stock exchange, 26th March 1973. (Credit: Arthur Jones/Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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1:06.0

Hello and thanks for downloading Witness, the History Podcast from the BBC World Service.

1:11.0

I'm Claire Bose, and today we're returning to March the 26th, 1973

1:18.4

when London Stock Exchange, one of the world's oldest, welcomed women as members for the first time.

1:25.0

I've been speaking to Hillary Pearson who was one of six women on that day

1:28.8

to gain access to one of the best paid professions in the world at the time.

1:35.0

The three and a half thousand brokers and jobers, working in the exchange and in city offices,

1:40.0

handle security is worth nearly 150,000 million pounds.

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