FROM INNOVATOR TO ADVOCATE
Ilene H. Lang
“A teacher said that I couldn’t be a leader because I was a girl,” Ilene Lang recalls. “I became a feminist at the age of eleven when I heard that.” Lang’s commitment to gender equality, which she terms her lifelong avocation, would ultimately bring her to Catalyst, a nonprofit focused on advancing women in the workplace. Along the way her own career journey mapped the evolution in women’s professional opportunities, bringing her from an era of normalized discrimination to one where gender is far less determinative yet still hinders women’s advancement.
Lang entered Radcliffe College in the fall of 1961, a member of one of the last classes to experience the separate and unequal system dividing Radcliffe ...
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