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        <title><![CDATA[Maria Bartiromo says Wall Street ‘boys club’ made her NYSE gig rough at first]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maria Bartiromo has revealed how the Wall Street &#8220;boys club&#8221; made her life tough when she first broadcast live from the NYSE.</p><p>The Fox Business vet was the first to go to Wall Street to report on TV when she was only 27 in 1995. She was among just a few women on the floor, and told Page Six: &#8220;I really had to be sharp-elbowed to become respected. A handful of people didn&#8217;t want me to be there, and they made it hard for me,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I remember going home being very upset.&#8221;</p><p>She recalled, &#8220;One guy yelled at me to get out of his way, and another pushed into me. But I made a commitment that I was going to own this job, I wasn&#8217;t looking for their approval … I knew my stuff.&#8221;</p><p>Bartiromo, who will ring the exchange bell virtually on Tuesday to mark the anniversary of her 25 years in the business, added: &#8220;It was a Wall Street boys club, and I turned up there, a young woman with a camera, and they had to get used to it. At the end of the day, I&#8217;m proud to have had the courage to go down there and face this sea of suits.&#8221;</p><p>Brooklyn-raised, she said she had a &#8220;little bit of an edge&#8221; that helped her.</p><p>Bartiromo said she was so ambitious to get on the air that she made her own tapes while working at CNN as a producer for Lou Dobbs, now her Fox colleague. She landed at CNBC and was there for a year when she was asked to cover the floor of the stock exchange. &#8220;It was a huge thing, and I remember all my old colleagues on CNN calling me and telling me, &#8216;You look terrible, they&#8217;re making an idiot out of you.&#8217; But I liked it. Three days later, CNN and Bloomberg, they all wanted their own person down there.&#8221;</p><p>Bartiromo also said she made friends for life there — and the traders even treated her to the tradition of putting a ball and chain on her ankle when she got married in 1999.</p><p>She&#8217;s currently the host of &#8220;Mornings With Maria,&#8221; &#8220;Maria Bartiromo&#8217;s Wall Street&#8221; and &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures,&#8221; and she&#8217;s about to release her latest book, &#8220;The Cost: Trump, China and American Revival.&#8221;</p>]]></content:encoded>
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