![]() “I say get out of the country in which you were born. And that is why she offers advice to women in their career about the value of living and working abroad. “I was 23 years old and knew no one,” Pullinger says. ![]() Two years into the job, in 1989, she was transferred to the U.S., to conduct similar analysis for a subsidiary company. There, she says, “I was the only woman in the office apart from the secretaries.” In all of her career, Pullinger says, she worked in male-dominated industries, including her first job in London where she was with Exel plc’s environmental division, conducting acquisition analysis in the U.K. Women face greater time obligations outside of work, for instance, and finance is a profession that disproportionately rewards those who work long and inflexible hours,” writes Brad Hooker in Enterprise.Īpply to 50 Women in Finance Can Change The World “Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that early role models, particularly female role models, influence women’s choice of finance careers,” writes Professor Brad Barber of the University of California- Davis Graduate School of Management in “STEM Parents and Women in Finance,” in the Financial Analyst Journal.īarber and co-authors, Professor Renée Adams at the University of New South Wales and Professor Terrance Odean at UC Berkeley, also wrote in a separate study “that specific barriers discourage women from entering the CFA/finance professions. Research points out the importance of role models-even remote ones-for women entering careers in finance and STEM. “It also gave me perspective on the world that was much bigger than the family system I was brought up in,” she says. “Oxford gave me access to an amazing network of people,” says Pullinger, who is at the helm of 100 Women in Finance with the mission to support women in advancing their careers through education, giving back through philanthropy, and leveraging relationships through peer engagement. Pullinger also happened to be a classmate of David Cameron, another British Prime Minister. Like her I went to a (public) grammar school, not a private school.”Īnd like her inspiration, Pullinger also went to Brasenose College of Oxford University, graduating in 1987 with an honors degree in Modern History. “I thought if she could do it, I could do it. “She was my motivation,” says Pullinger, who has led the largest affinity group globally for women in finance and alternative investment industries since 2014. “I saw Margaret Thatcher as someone who was not in the aristocracy, but who got to Oxford University and was at the top of her game in politics, “says Pullinger, who as head of 100 Women in Finance, has grown the organization to 15,000 global members, raising $44 million for nonprofit organizations and holding more than 800 educational events. ![]() So as a teenager, she looked to 10 Downing Street for inspiration. The CEO of 100 Women in Finance, Pullinger says she was the first in her family to go to university, and no one was in business. Growing up in a suburb of Birmingham, England, Amanda Pullinger looked to Margaret Thatcher, then prime minister of England, as her role model. ![]()
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