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WOMEN & LEADERSHIP
Lessons From the Front Lines
10/4/2008 12:00:00 AM
When I first worked for the "Today" show at NBC, a very long time ago, I was a writer, but I was only allowed to write the so-called women's features. It sounds as if I'm talking about the 1890s. But I had a huge break when Hugh Downs, the then host of "Today," put me on the air. Sadly, the man who eventually replaced Hugh, a man named Frank McGee, didn't want me to participate in his "hard news" interviews. He insisted that he do them alone. Now there is a difference between whining and standing up for what you feel you must, and that was one of the times when I did. I protested loudly and strongly, and so the big compromise was that Frank McGee would ask the first three questions. I could come in on the fourth.
Kill Fee
Johnnie L. Roberts 11/28/2006 12:00:00 AM
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Women and Leadership
My Journey to the Top

Anne LauvergeonCEO, the French energy conglomerate ArevaBoth my parents are literary people, so I don't come from a scientific background. When I took the French baccalaureate, about half the students taking the scientific exam were women. But when I got to the Ecole des Mines [science and engineering university], we were only 10 percent women.
WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP | ORAL HISTORIES
My Journey to the Top

Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident—all those epithets that strike right at our femininity. We are still working at trying to overcome the fear that power and womanliness are mutually exclusive.
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