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NEW YORK (AP) - At age 19, Mary Sterk was divorced with two children, earning minimum wage and buying her groceries with food stamps. Now, 14 years later, she regularly pilots a plane to meet with wealthy investors whose assets are among the $110 million managed by the financial advisory firm she founded.
"There are tremendous opportunities for women in the industry", says Sterk, whose Sioux City, Iowa, company, Sterk Financial Services Inc., is affiliated with Woodbury Financial Services Inc., a unit of The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc.
But for all the opportunities, women still make up only 20 percent of the advisers in the United States.
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