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Name: Muriel Siebert

Date of birth: September 12th, 1928

Place of Birth: Cleveland, Ohio, EE. UU.

Parents: Margaret y Irwin Siebert

Siblings: 1 hermana

Marital status while studying: Single (she never got married)

Kids: No Kids

Day of death: August 24th 2013

Reference: Autobiografía Changing the Rules, New York Times, Women’s Hall of Fame

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University: Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve University)

Started: 1949

Major: Took business classes (did not graduate)

Context: Often the only woman in her classes.

Reason for dropping out: In 1952, her father was diagnosed with cancer, and she left school to help her family.

Strategic move: Lied about having a college degree to secure her first Wall Street job.

Postgraduate Studies: None, but received 17 honorary doctorates, including one from Wagner College in 2010.

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Marital Status: Single throughout her studies

Lived With: Her family in Cleveland, Ohio

Support to attend college: Supported by her family at first.

Reason for leaving college: Father’s illness.

Opposition: Not explicit, but later faced heavy resistance in Wall Street when nine men refused to sponsor her application to buy a NYSE seat.

Fun fact: She was a pioneer for women by moving alone to New York to pursue her dream — a bold move at that time.

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First Job: Researcher at Bache & Company

Key fact: Lied about having a degree to get the job.

Why she switched jobs: She kept leaving companies because she was paid less than men for the same work.

Founded her own company: Muriel Siebert & Company (1969)

Historic achievement:

1967: First woman to buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange.

The only woman among 1,365 men for ten years.

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Barrier: Nine men refused to sponsor her NYSE application.

Solution: The tenth person she asked finally agreed to sponsor her.

Barrier: Pay inequality and lack of women’s restrooms at the NYSE.

Key Supporters:

Gerald Tsai, a friend who encouraged her to buy a NYSE seat.

Chase Manhattan Bank, which loaned her $300,000 to complete the $445,000 purchase.

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1977: Appointed the first female Superintendent of Banking for the State of New York.

Key result: During her tenure, no New York bank failed.

1982: Ran as a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate (finished second out of three).

1990: Founded the Siebert Entrepreneurial Philanthropic Plan to encourage charitable donations through business transactions.

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I did not find information about the first women in my degree, however i find the next indicators.

According to ANUIES and Mexico’s SEP (2023), 52% of graduates in Business, Administration, and Law are women.

Marketing is part of this category.

Estimated number of female graduates each year: Over 55,000 women graduate annually from these fields in Mexico.

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Alexander, K. L. (2019). Muriel Siebert. National Women’s History Museum. https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/muriel-siebert

Muriel Siebert. (n.d.). Investopedia. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/muriel-siebert.asp

Calhoun, A. (2023, March 2). The First Woman of Finance - CAM Investor Solutions. CAM Investor Solutions. https://caminvestor.com/the-first-woman-of-finance/