30 years ago, two Harvard Business School professors had a plan. They wanted to change the world. Start filling the pipeline with female managers, they predicted, and in 10 or 20 years at most, those women would shift into senior positions. Once that took place, could an end to sexism in the workplace (and maybe everywhere else too) be far off? Anne Jardim and her partner, Margaret Hennig, wrote one of the first books of career advice for pigeonholed secretaries and ambitious assistants: The Managerial Woman. (View an interactive feature showing differences between men and women in corporate America.)
When it was published, in 1977, just 2.3 percent of the executives in U.S. firms were women. The book—a "groundbreaking" bestseller, according to the New York Times—was onto something big. Now, three decades later, 52 percent of all middle managers are women.
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