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...when he loses a leg in a bicycle accident. Depressed in the prison of his apartment, he falls for his immigrant Croatian nurse. The idyll is interrupted by the arrival on his doorstep of the title character from Coetzee's previous novel, Elizabeth Costello. An aging novelist of dwindling talent (a courageous invention for an aging novelist like Coetzee), she is determined to shake Rayment from his lethargy and have him for herself. She takes over his life, threatening his romance and his sanity. Rayment laments that he "never knows, with the Costello woman, when he is being treated seriously...
...Nationwide, an insurance and financial-services company in Columbus, Ohio, where she had started years ago as an accountant. But then a white male colleague burst her bubble. "You know, Donna," he said, "the jury is still out on whether you are where you are because you have talent or because you are female and black." James was stunned into silence, not because she had never beheld such a stereotype in the workplace but because no one had ever voiced it to her face. Her colleague explained he meant no harm. "He was trying to help...
...believe that their employers don't recognize their responsibilities outside the workplace. Most alarming, 39% of minority women executives say the subtle prejudices in the workplace have alienated and disengaged them from their jobs; 1 in 5 has considered quitting. "Corporate America is in danger of letting this valuable talent slip through its fingers," says Hewlett...
...that role to become director of global gender diversity. Through a program called Girls Get IT, Cisco is trying to rally interest in technology careers among girls by funding workshops at urban schools and in poorer countries around the world. "It's fantastic," Allwood says. "Cisco is building a talent pipeline, and I get to feel valuable...
...than 10 years ago, but it does not specifically target minority women. So Yee helped launch the Asian Women's Leadership Network to offer mentoring and networking. IBM recognized her work, and when the firm decided to lead 50 other companies in studying how to best use their Asian talent to target Asian markets, Yee, 50, was handpicked to lead the project...