Women and Work to Lynn Martin, Breaking Glass Ceilings Is Good Business
Babette Morgan Of the Post-Dispatch, St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
Former Secretary of Labor Lynn Martin won over a roomful of businesswomen here last week with straight talk about white collars, glass ceilings and gorgeous babies.
Her message to them - woman to woman - was that business is changing, albeit very slowly, to accommodate those whose fervent wish is a better balance between work and family.
Her message to them as business executives - one capitalist to another - was that corporate America had better change for its own good. Companies whose rigid policies drive away women are throwing out half their talent pool, she said, and what kind of smart business is that?
Martin, who served as Labor Secretary under …
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Article title: Women and Work to Lynn Martin, Breaking Glass Ceilings Is Good Business.
Contributors: Babette Morgan Of the Post-Dispatch - Author.
Newspaper title: St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO).
Publication date: December 4, 1994.
Page number: 1E.
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