Real Life Resilience

"Women have to put their foot forward and say I'm entitled. If I'm doing an equal job, I should be paid for it. For all the young women now who have never had to deal with these problems...I walked the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for you." When Norma Yaeger acquired her New York Stock Exchange license in 1962, she didn’t know of any other women in the industry. The Stock Exchange didn’t even allow women to step foot on its floor. But having just escaped poverty in NY’s Catskill Mountains, and determined to support her children, Norma wasn’t going to let the exclusionary traditions of the financial industry stop her from becoming a stockbroker.