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Diving also played a key role in the Tiger victory, with Doug Kirkman and Joe Rauch finishing 1-3 in the 1-meter competition and 1-2 on the 3-meter board...
...Barbara Boyle Sullivan, 42, criticizes the affirmative-action policies of corporations?and they pay her for it. Her consulting firm, Boyle/Kirkman Associates, which she founded with Colleague Sharon Kirkman Donegan in 1972, originally specialized in locating patterns of discrimination
Both got their start working to set up "affirmativeaction" programs to create a better employment climate for women at IBM, where Boyle (who was married last month) was a marketing manager and Kirkman a data-processing marketing representative. While at IBM, Boyle accepted equal-employment assignments at other companies on a freelance basis; Kirkman left the company to devise an affirmative-action program for the American Express Co. They set up Boyle/Kirkman Associates in Manhattan in 1972, with Boyle as president and Kirkman as vice president. One of a handful of management consulting firms that advise top companies on ways...
...cost up to $50,000. It usually begins with a thorough search through women's personnel records for patterns of discrimination in such areas as salary and lines of advancement, and continues through interviews with top executives, middle managers and a random sample of female employees. Then Boyle, Kirkman or one of the firm's five consultants (all women) present recommendations to top management. One startling example of bias that they turned up: Kirkman, reviewing the records of 300 women employed by a major oil company, found that all had supposedly expressed unwillingness to relocate if offered...
Boyle and Kirkman agree that it is easier to give a computer a new program than to equip a human being with a new perception. "The real problem," says Kirkman, "is personal attitudes about women on the part of middle managers, who largely determine whether -and how far-women will rise." In an attempt to get bosses to look hard at their behavior, Boyle and Kirkman have devised a series of play-acting scenarios that they put clients through. In one, a male executive was asked to offer an important but demanding job to Boyle. "He stressed all the negative...