Cracks in 'glass ceiling'; Women set for advances in corporate USA; Experience, demographics in their favor
June 1, 1990
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Lilas Komeyli won't forget her first day on the job as an automation engineer at a General Motors Corp. plant in Ohio. She was 22 and had never set foot in a plant before. "I walked in and they were making all these noises, whistling. I said, 'Oh my God, what did I get myself into?' "
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Tech's faded promise; Women execs crash into 'glass ceiling'
July 13, 1990
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - When women scanned the corporate landscape in the early 1970s, there was one region they saw as the promised land - high technology.
A young industry, it looked like a new frontier untouched by bureaucracy, tradition and the good ol' boy way of doing things. Companies would be small and run by rule-breaking entrepreneurs who would want but one thing: getting the job done by those who could do it best. They would know not, care not, or just have zip time for gender bias.
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Labor Dept. shrugs off 'glass ceiling' study
Aug. 9, 1991
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A long-awaited Labor Department report that promised to crash through the "glass ceiling" has instead landed with a thud, critics say.
Labor Secretary Lynn Martin on Thursday released results of the "glass ceiling" report, based on a pilot study begun in fall 1989 under former Labor Secretary Elizabeth Dole.
