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Fortune Mag released another list yesterday, this time of the 50 most powerful females in business.
 

I consider myself lucky that my first boss was a woman.  What I learned from her I still apply professionally today when it comes to outreach and collaboration. And this was 1970, in an old-school outfit founded and run by Mad Men types.    She was brilliant and funny and too often diminished by the males to whom she reported. She taught me how to recognize the corrosive effect of discrimination – especially the subtle kind. I was lucky because I saw first hand how really valuable she was and how the organization was preventing itself from getting the highest return on a human resource -- in spite of her tireless efforts.   In the years since then I’ve been in many situations where I had to report to women or collaborate with them as peers.  Not all of them could match up to her, but the insights she gave me were, and remain, invaluable.  

Don’t know where you are, Betty, but you gotta be smiling when you read stuff like this.