Word: businesswomen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unconcerned. "I don't believe there should be separate quarters for the ladies, like some female ghetto," says Giles Shepard, managing director of the Savoy group of hotels. "It is women who are made to feel more uncomfortable when a lot of special arrangements are made for them." Many businesswomen would agree -- so long as simple courtesy, convenience and safety are not viewed as "special arrangements...
...examples are easy. The Madonna look. Torn stockings. Tie-dye. Tattered jeans. Multiple ear pierces. A man with long hair or an earring. And, of course, the miniskirt, which, some may recall, was once upon a time a youthquaking look of radical chic and rebellion. Now businesswomen wear them...
Many department stores have a double standard when it comes to alterations on clothing: women pay extra but men do not. Most shoppers accept this inequality, but not Muriel Mabry and Lori Anderson, two California businesswomen. When they bought dresses this summer at a Saks Fifth Avenue store in Costa Mesa, Calif., they were each charged about $40 for alterations. Meanwhile, the women claim, Anderson's husband bought a suit and tuxedo that the store tailored for free...
...half-dozen TIME reporters who spoke to the businesswomen behind the stats heard tales both harrowing and inspiring. "They have frequently beaten the odds," says Whitaker, "working with less capital, less training and fewer contacts than their male peers. They've created their own opportunities." Few saw their success as a triumph for their sex. "Most women entrepreneurs like to think of themselves as business people first and females second," says Reporter Blake Hallanan, who conducted interviews in the West and Southwest. Washington Correspondent Gisela Bolte agrees: "The women did not strike me as profeminist or antifeminist. Their only cause...
...more and more women set up companies, female versions of the old-boy network are developing. The 3,000-member National Association of Women Business Owners, for example, successfully lobbied the House committee to hold its hearings on female entrepreneurs. Businesswomen who belong to the Committee of 200, an elite Chicago-based group of top executives from 70 different industries, discuss everything at their meetings, from where to find the best office computer system to how to balance a demanding career with a marriage. Says Member Joan Helpern, chief executive of the manufacturer of Joan and David shoes (1987 revenues...