Clearing the Hurdles: Women Building High-Growth Businesses

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WOMEN BECOMING

ENTREPRENEURS

America is the land of opportunity. In the 1960s and 1970s, thanks in

large part to the civil rights and feminist movements, it became a land of

equal opportunity. Since the landmark AT&T settlement in 1973, women

and minorities have made enormous progress in penetrating America’s

corporate ranks.

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While great strides were made, the transformation of

corporate America is still very much a work in process. Women still face

very real, although often invisible, barriers known as the glass ceiling.

Women make up the majority of managers under age 35, but they lead

only 6 of the Fortune 500 corporations and comprise less ...