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Outsider

18 March 2022
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At a recent event, the question arose about which movie best represented financial services. 

Was it perhaps the ‘Wolf of Wall Street’, the boozy, drug-addled biopic starring Leonardo DiCaprio as former stockbroker Jordan Belfort. Was it ‘The Big Short’, Matthew

McConaughey’s insight into the confusing role of sub-prime mortgages leading up to the Global Financial Crisis?

Maybe it was the original ‘Wall Street’, the movie that made thousands of men want to go out and become a trader to emulate Michael Douglas’s Gordon Gekko.

One thing was for sure, Outsider noticed as he sat down for a movie marathon at home one weekend, none of the movies mentioned featured any women at work in them.

One actress, Australia’s very own Margot Robbie, even features in both of the first two movies playing a similar blonde bombshell role in each. 

Outsider wonders, with a lack of visible role models portrayed the media, is it any wonder that women are less represented in the financial services industry? After all, one cannot be what they cannot see. 

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