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Women in business: let’s go beyond tokenism and the status quo

In 1996, my first formal speech on women in business described the “female model of leadership,” and here we are still debating the same

Opinion | BY CAROL STEPHENSON | July 13, 2017

Authors Sheryl Sandberg, right, chief operating officer of Facebook, and Anne-Marie Slaughter, left, of the New America think-tank, have suggested women need to be encouraged to identify and eliminate bad habits that hold them back. In other instances, it's men who need to be educated to assess women objectively, writes ex-business school dean Carol Stephenson. Photographs courtesy of New America and Financial Times/Drew Altizer

Women in business: let’s go beyond tokenism and the status quo

Opinion | BY CAROL STEPHENSON | July 13, 2017

In 1996, my first formal speech on women in business described the “female model of leadership,” and here we are still debating the same

Women in business: let’s go beyond tokenism and the status quo

Opinion | BY CAROL STEPHENSON | July 13, 2017

In 1996, my first formal speech on women in business described the “female model of leadership,” and here we are still debating the same

Authors Sheryl Sandberg, right, chief operating officer of Facebook, and Anne-Marie Slaughter, left, of the New America think-tank, have suggested women need to be encouraged to identify and eliminate bad habits that hold them back. In other instances, it's men who need to be educated to assess women objectively, writes ex-business school dean Carol Stephenson. Photographs courtesy of New America and Financial Times/Drew Altizer