Word: ladders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...JACOB'S LADDER...
...participation by 300% to 400% since the early '70s, and no one can argue that they haven't made some difference. Women lawyers have spearheaded reforms in the treatment of female victims of rape and of battering. Women executives have created supportive networks to help other women up the ladder and are striving to sensitize corporations to the need for ) flexible hours, child care and parental leave. Women journalists have fought to get women's concerns out of the "style section" and onto the front page. Women doctors, according to physician-writer Perri Klass, are less paternalistic than their male...
...year from the once all-male post of senior vice president at J. Walter Thompson. It was a teasing tribute to a woman who was well known for beating the pants off men at their own game. For Howington, a striking 60, who began climbing the ad agency's ladder in Chicago in 1967, the key to success was to "be aggressive" and "think like a man." In 22 years, she says, she never turned to other women for professional support or advice. "I didn't think they had anything of value to share," she says. "There...
...These women didn't materialize from thin air,"says CAWP Director Ruth Mandel. "Most of them arerunning for higher office after years of workingtheir way up the political ladder...
Corporate climbers need brains to get to the top of the ladder, but muscles may help too. A new workout machine called the Executive Power Chair is designed to help executives pump up without leaving their command posts. The power chair enables desk jockeys to do more than 20 different upper-body exercises. Built to look like classic office furniture, the power chair has foldaway exercise handles and "cashmere-like" fabric. The price: $1,199 for the deluxe model and $499 for one more suitable for junior executives. The power chair is made by NordicTrack, which is best known...