T+D May 09 // Intelligence //

Roaring All the Way to the Top

By Ann Pace

Women leaders express greater confidence about opportunities.

In 1968 the standing of women in the labor force was deteriorating to the point that President Lyndon B. Johnson described the under-utilization of women’s skills as “the most tragic and the most senseless waste of this century, a waste we can no longer afford.”

Forty years later, the outlook is quite the opposite. More than 1 billion women co