 While in Washington, Madelyn Dunham attended the University of Washington although she never completed a degree.The Dunhams then moved to Honolulu, Hawaii, where Madelyn Dunham started working at the Bank of Hawaii in 1960 and was promoted to be one of the bank's first female vice presidents in 1970, while Stanley Dunham worked at a furniture store.In 1970s Honolulu, both women and the minority white population were routinely the target of discrimination.