Biography|Jane Fraser — The Women's College on Huntingdon Road Where She Read Economics

Girton College sits two and a half miles northwest of Cambridge, on Huntingdon Road.

Alfred Waterhouse designed the red-brick range for a college that began, in 1869, as England's first residential college for women.

Fraser arrived in 1985.

She read economics and took her BA in 1988, later converted by Cambridge custom to an MA.

Girton had admitted men only since 1976.

The Great Hall still does the work it was built for: formal dinners under a high roof.

From this building she went to Goldman Sachs in London as a mergers-and-acquisitions analyst.

She stayed there from July 1988 to July 1990.

Then came a Madrid brokerage, then Harvard.

The pin is the college, not the later banks.

A visitor finds a working Cambridge college on the edge of a village, not a plaque tour in the city centre.

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