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Sexism In The City Is The First Book To Trace The History Of Women Stockbrokers In The United Kingdom From The Late Nineteenth To The Late Twentieth Centuries. Forgotten Pioneers, These Businesswomen Fought Against The Odds To Establish Successful Brokerages Across The Country And In The Process, Challenged Society's Beliefs About Women And Money. The Book Also Tells The Story Of How The Nation's Stock Exchanges Denied Them Membership For Generations, Mobilizing Increasingly Desperate Arguments To Try To Justify Their Exclusion, Until Women Finally Won The Right To Join The London Stock Exchange In 1973. By Spotlighting The Lives And Careers Of Women Who Worked As Stockbrokers Outside Male-monopolized Institutions, This Book Reframes The Historical Development Of Finance In Several Ways. It Highlights The Extent To Which The Seemingly Gender-neutral Institutions And Practices Of Finance Were, In Fact, Based On Gendered Ideologies And Exclusions. It Also Argues That Focusing On Institutions Only Reveals Part Of The Financial Ecosystem, Meaning That We Miss What Was Happening Outside The Formal Market. And It Challenges London-centric Interpretations Of Financial History, Asking Questions About The Financial Cultures Existing Outside The Metropolis. If We Look Beyond The Official Exchanges-and Beyond London-a More Diverse Financial Environment Comes Into View-- Provided By Publisher.