CHAPTER 1
AIMING HIGH AND FALLING TO EARTH
Women in Early and Midcareer
To a woman graduating from college today, the lack of women in the senior ranks of business (as well as other fields) looks like an historical artifact. By the time she is the age of one of the few dozen female Fortune 500 CEOs, she reasons, company hierarchies should more or less reflect the proportion of women in her cohort. She has learned, likely throughout her entire educational career, about female leaders whose breakthroughs made it possible for later generations to rise. She may have read about someone such as former secretary of commerce Barbara Franklin, whose story appears after this chapter, who demonstrates that women can hold their own in the halls of ...
Get Glass Half-Broken now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
