Word: edlen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Scary Thing. Black businesswomen often contend that the toughest prejudice that they face is not racist but sexist. Rosanna Wright, 30, president of Wright-Edlen Advertising Inc. in Los Angeles, takes the most optimistic view. "White men find it easier to work with a black woman than with a black man," she says. "They don't expect women to succeed, so they figure that they might as well help us along. Still, it's a struggle." Adds Shirley Barnes Kulunda, an account executive with Manhattan's J. Walter Thompson ad agency: "When white businessmen look...