Female Leaders

Readers of THE GLOSS gathered at the Irish Stock Exchange to celebrate Ireland's first female stockbroker and the evolution of THE GLOSS | Goodbody Investment Club … 

An attentive and glamorous crowd joined THE GLOSS and Goodbody at the Irish Stock Exchange's headquarters in Foster Place, Dublin 2 to hear Dr Antonia Hart give a thrilling lecture on the life and times of Ireland's first female stockbroker, Oonah Keogh. The latter joined her father's stockbroking firm in the early 1920s at a pivotal point in the country's history, and was granted a license to practise thanks to the efforts of the first female Cumann na Gael TD in the Dáil, Margaret Collins O'Driscoll (elder sister of Michael Collins and mother to 14 children) and the gender equality terms set out in the then Constitution.

Dr Antonia Hart, Laura DeVoy, Investment Director, Goodbody, and Michelle O’Keefe, Head of Wealth Advisory, Goodbody.

Dr Hart's account was followed by a lively discussion on how things have changed for women in the world of finance. Michelle O'Keefe, Head of Wealth Advisory at Goodbody revealed that on her first day at the Stock Exchange, 50 years after Oonah, that she too was the only woman on the floor of the Market Hall and she too was not permitted to wear trousers!