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Woman's Hour

Julia Hoggett, CEO of the London Stock Exchange

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Personal Journals

4.22.9K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

It’s fifty years since six newly elected female traders entered the floor of the London Stock Exchange for the first time after 200 years of exclusion. The number of women working in finance reached a peak in 1997 at almost six-hundred-thousand, but has dropped by more than thirty percent to around four-hundred-thousand last year. Half a century after the first women were allowed onto the floor at the London Stock Exchange, the ‘inequity’ that has held women back in the industry has still not been fully redressed. We talk to Julia Hoggett, CEO of the London Stock Exchange and Beryl Gayler, one of the first female dealers there. Soaps and dramas are increasingly making mainstream issues an integral part of their storylines. Take the current Eastenders storyline following Lola Pearce’s terminal brain tumour diagnosis or Jean Slater’s battle with ovarian cancer in 2019. But what about a drama series that explores a cancer diagnosis through conversations on a social media app? The charity Breast Cancer Now has created the UK’s first group messaging series which consists of voice notes, messages and videos sent between four close friends as they navigate an unexpected breast cancer diagnosis together. Anita is joined by two of the women who inspired the story, Kelly Short and Lurline Thomas, as well as the Associate Director of Nursing and Health Information at Breast Cancer Now, Sally Kum, to discuss whether this could be Wea new way of supporting women with cancer. Suzi Ruffell is on a mission to find the lighter moments in life as she navigates motherhood, touring the country and anxiety. The comedian's latest show Snappy is a series of confessional stories about settling down, living life with her "bossy toddler" and worrying about absolutely everything. Suzi Ruffell joins Anita Rani. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Lisa Jenkinson Studio Manager: Duncan Hannant

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts

0:05.2

Hello, I'm Anita Rani and welcome to Woman's Hour from BBC Radio 4.

0:10.3

Good morning, welcome to the programme.

0:12.5

It's been 50 years since the first women were allowed onto the trading floor at the London

0:17.8

Stock Exchange.

0:18.8

So, today I'll be talking to Berrol Gailer, who stepped onto the Stock Exchange in the

0:23.0

70s, after being asked to interview for the job.

0:26.6

She went from being a brokers clerk to a dealer with the boys on the trading floor.

0:31.6

So this morning, I'd like to hear your stories of being plucked from obscurity to be given

0:37.3

an opportunity where the spotlight has been shown on you when someone noticed little

0:43.1

all you.

0:44.1

Whether that's a job offer that changed your life or you were picked to captain the school

0:48.0

netball team or you were the underdog who got the lead in the school play or maybe the

0:52.5

love of your life appeared and swept your feet.

0:55.9

My story as an 11-year-old, I went along to support a friend who wanted to audition

1:00.3

for a fashion show at school.

1:02.0

I was the youngest and the shortest person to walk the catwalk with no intention of being

1:07.4

in it myself and guess what, yes, it was me that got picked.

1:10.9

My modelling career didn't take off, but I'll never forget the moment the P-tock

1:15.0

tock-tructure pointed at me and said, yes, you and Iita, I was the last to be selected

1:19.6

and the look on my friend's face, she wasn't happy.

1:22.7

So the moment you got your moments, getting touched with me in the usual way, the text

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