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Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Women in "the pit"

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In the commodities markets, less than 2 percent of the brokers at the New York Board of Trade are women. But the spitting and hollering may not last forever. Amy Scott reports.

pictured: Johanna Lee, who quit the commodities business to make a film about it.

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