First woman to buy a seat on the NYSE

Aged 80 years died Muriel "Mickie" Siebert - the first woman, член NYSE.

 

Meriel Seabert

1968. Mickey has always been the most recognizable figure on the WS

Muriel "Mickie" Siebert became the first woman, taking place at NYSE. She was the founder and owner of a brokerage firm, bearing her name - Muriel Siebert & Co. Inc.

Jane Macon, director Siebert Financial, talking about her death, called her"Fabulous woman, pioneer and pioneer in the men's business world ", which raised the bar for everyone, entering the financial world after her. Nevertheless, she "Opening the door, always kept it for people, following her ".

She bought a spot on the NYSE in December 1967 after months of struggling with business resistance with a purely masculine dominance.

Meriel Seabert (Muriel Siebert) - first female broker on the New York Stock Exchange - died 24 August aged 80 years. Writes about this The New York Times with reference to the member of the Board of Directors of Siebert Financial Corporation Jane Macon (Jane H. Macon).

По информации издания, the cause of death was cancer. Other details were not specified.

Meriel Siebert was born in 1932 year in the family of a dentist. Not graduating from university due to father's illness, in 1954 year she came to New York with "500 dollars in her pocket". Siebert got a job in a brokerage company, but changed jobs several times due to gender discrimination.

Nevertheless, by the mid-60s, she had managed to become a successful analyst.. At the same time, Siebert decided to buy a broker's place on the New York Stock Exchange., however, the NYSE demanded a record amount of 450 one thousand dollars. After two years of searching, Sibert managed to find creditors, and for the next ten years she was the only female stock broker in New York.

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Siebert is known as the founder of the first discounter broker (discount brokering) – companies, providing a minimum set of services and charging a minimum commission. With 1977 on 1982 a year she served as the head of the banking department of New York. After her resignation, Siebert returned to running her own company, Muriel Siebert & Co. IN 1996 year she created Siebert Financial Corporation.

In original, many more interesting things about this extraordinary woman.

However, today all over the web there are many publications about her…

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