ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on the comparative theory of locality, focusing on mainland China, Hong Kong and Australia individually to understand how the geographical location of a bank lays the groundwork for self-identity, social engagement, work experience and career opportunity for Chinese female professionals in the globalised financial service economy. It focuses less on gender and more on the interlocking relationship between a banking or financial institution – its place and rank in a city’s urban hierarchy and ways that relations of rank and power contour opportunities for professionals’ career mobility. It explains how an individual’s recognition by top management teams and their career mobility are interlocked with political significance (especially in China), economic power and degrees of modernity in different cities.
