Institute for Banking and Financial History (IBF), the Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE, the House of Finance (HoF), and Women in Economic History (WIEH) (Web)

Time: 30.06.2023, 12.00-13.30 Uhr
Venue: Frankfurt a.M. and virtual space

It has become common in financial histories to refer to 19th century bankers with he/she pronouns. But rare is a woman that is identified as a banker in the literature. Is this because women bankers have been overlooked or are these 20th and 21st century pronouns of respect covering up the exclusionary misogyny of 19th century American finance?
This paper uses a variety of sources to discover if women of this era had anything beyond a minuscule role as managers, owners, employees or customers of financial institutions. Eugene N. White finds that only a handful of women managed banks and if they were employed it was usually in menial positions. But, they accounted for a third of the national bank shareholders, owning a quarter of the stock. Women only had a slightly larger presence on the frontier and at the federal regulatory agency (OCC), which slowly promoted them to more senior positions.

Moderation: Friederike Sattler, Women in Economic History (WIEH)

Eugene N. White is distinguished Professor of Economics at the Rutgers Univ. He currently helds the Visiting Professorship of Financial History at Goethe Univ.

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