The highest-profile titans of politics, finance and industry increasingly have this in common: They’re women.
A star-studded event in Manhattan last night featured a joint interview with Hillary Clinton, an early front-runner in the 2016 U.S. presidential race, and Christine Lagarde, the first woman to run the International Monetary Fund. In Washington, Janet Yellen chairs the Federal Reserve and General Motors Co. Chief Executive Officer Mary Barra, the first woman to head a major American car company, this week survived a congressional grilling historically reserved for men.
And yet Morgan Stanley (MS) Chief Financial Officer Ruth Porat on April 2 lamented the “embarrassment” of data that show women aren’t filling leadership ranks in American companies.
See full Article: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-04/clinton-lagarde-target-glass-ceiling-for-women-worldwide.html
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