WOMEN STOCKBROKERS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 106, 1 November 1933, Page 7

WOMEN STOCKBROKERS

BAN AT BRADFORD

Bradford's first woman stockbroker Miss Edith' Midgley, has started operations in. offices in the-city. She is.-pro-bably the first woman in England t« work on her own account in competition with the official Stock Exchang* (states a correspondent).

Miss.Midgley, who has had twentyone years' experience in the offices of stock and share brokers, has made several efforts to gain admittance to the Bradford Stock Exchange, but the doors are closed to. her. Her position is peculiar, because, as far as she knows, there- are only three other women stockbrokers in England, and; they, work in towns where there is no exchange. . It is insisted by' Miss- Midgley that she has every right to be admitted to the Stock Exchange. "Bradford has its own Stock Exchange," she says, "and until I am a member of that thexo is bound to be a big'difference between the status of my men rivals and myself. Three years ago I tried to become a member of the Exchange* but my application was rejected, and after that the Exchange made a rule excluding women from -'membership. • "I have trained and am fully qualified to act as a stockbroker, and I wo,uld have no difficulty in finding the necessary financial, backing for.: membership. Yet, I cannot be accepted into partnership or permitted to join -th» Bradford Exchange, which consists of fewer than a score of members, two of whom I have trained. I do not know of any other exchange apart from Bradford which has a rule against women.'*