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15. Yes, except the idea that you'll find many progressive women in positions of power
Wed Jul 4, 2012, 10:29 AM
Jul 2012

I ended up attending board room meetings at one point of my career simply be being high enough up in a legal administrator position. I was there because I had been made secretary of the corporation and it's subsidiaries (this was a NASDAQ company), and my position involved keeping the official minutes. My view from that experience is that you are going to be hard-pressed to find progressive women in the board room simply because getting to that point typically means you've done everything you've needed to do in proving to the corporation you are management material (meaning you've no doubt stepped on workers along the way). I could see it possibly happening in the newer internet type companies but I can't see it being widespread.

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