WOMEN BANNED

Hokitika Guardian, 30 October 1933, Page 7

WOMEN BANNED

BRADFORD STOCK EXCHANGE LONDON, October 23. Bradford’s first woman stockbroker, . Miss Edith Midgley, has started operations in offices in the city. She is pro- | bnhly the first woman in England to work on her own account in competition with tlie official Stock Exhange. I Miss Midgley, who has had 21 years I experience in the offices of stock and share brokers, has made several efforts to gain admittance to the Bradford :b.tA Exchange, but the doors ait* , closed to her. Her position is peculiar. 1 u ■ as tar as sue knows, there are only three other women stockbrokers in | England, and they work in towns where there is no exhange. It is insisted by Miss Midgley that j 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 there 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 app’ication was rejected, and after that the Exchange made a rule excluding women from membership. j “I have trained and am fully qualified to act as a stockbroker and I would have, no difficulty in finding the necessary financial backing for member. I ship. Yet, I cannot be accepted into partnership or permitted to join the 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 lifts a rule against women,”