Word: woman
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Hope's successful career, as with most women of her generation, has included its share of tokenism. While Hope maynot consider herself a "pioneer," she is nostranger to being the first woman member oftraditionally all-male institutions...
...student at the Law School, she was one ofonly 12 women in her 1964 graduating class. Sincethen, she has become the first woman on theexecutive committee of her Los Angeles-based lawfirm, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky and Walker.Colleagues there acknowledge that she brought amuch different perspective to thetraditionally-minded law firm...
...years ago, Hope wrote in a pamphlet onwomen Law School graduates that "A woman withsufficient seniority and experience to beconsidered [for a corporate post] is somewhat morelikely to be chosen than a man; there are fewer ofus in the pool...
...many observers of the Corporation wonderwhat impact a woman's selection will have on theboard's policies, activists are already asking howthe Corporation will fill a second vacant seat...
...search for a successor to TreasurerRoderick M. MacDougall '51, who died in November,is still in the early stages. Corporation memberand Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky,who was active in the search for Heiskell'sreplacement, said he does not know how hard theCorporation will work to find another woman oreven a minority member...