T+D May 09 // Intelligence //
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Roaring All the Way to the Top
By Ann Pace
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Women leaders express greater confidence about opportunities.
In 1968 the standing of women in the labor force was deteriorating to the point that President Lyndon B. Johnson described the under-utilization of women’s skills as “the most tragic and the most senseless waste of this century, a waste we can no longer afford.”
Forty years later, the outlook is quite the opposite. More than 1 billion women co