Strategies for Advancing in Your Career
As I was growing up in the 1950s, my parents often assured me that I could be anything I wanted to be. In that era, women’s rights and women’s equality were still largely unknown concepts. In most cases, men were the breadwinners; women were expected to become wives and mothers. Those who did enter the workforce typically became secretaries, teachers or nurses. But my parents instilled in me a belief that I not only would go to college, but that I should expect to go to one of the world’s most prestigious business schools, the almost exclusively all-male Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. And I did, entering the school in the fall of 1960. When I got there, though, I quickly noticed ...
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