Half a century after a battle for the first women to join the LSE

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Half a century after a battle for the first women to join the LSE
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The LSE itself did not want women to join, with members voting against it several times

When Susan Shaw finished her first day on the floor of the London Stock Exchange in March 1973, a newspaper photographer wanted to take her picture. He was coming from a job at London Zoo.

For some at the time, allowing women to join the members’ club formed in 1801 at the heart of the City of London was a strange spectacle — and an unwelcome one. When women left school, career options tended to be secretarial work, nursing or university, recalls Shaw, who was then 37...

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