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Author Wymard, Ellie, 1937-

Title Conversations with uncommon women : insights from women who've risen above life's challenges to achieve extraordinary success / Ellie Wymard
Published New York : AMACOM, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 254 pages)
Contents Chapter One Women in Politics: "I Had to Go Out There and Fight" -- Chapter Two Women and Policy: Entrepreneurial Advocates for Social Change -- Chapter Three Women in the Law: Soundings From Bench and Bar -- Chapter Four Women in Journalism: "Hire This Girl" -- Chapter Five Women and Businesses: Negotiating the Culture -- Chapter Six Women in Arts Management: Out on Thin Ice -- A Coda "You Aren't What You Do."
Summary This much-needed book celebrates the success of 100 outstanding women in a variety of professions, who have risen from decidedly different backgrounds and who have overcome myriad personal challenges. Based on candid interviews with 100 women of achievement, it provides resounding inspiration and guidance for all women who are hungry for real-world role models. -- Provided by publisher
Notes Includes index
English
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Subject Women in the professions -- United States -- Interviews
Women -- Political activity -- United States -- Interviews
Women in public life -- United States -- Interviews
Successful people -- United States -- Interviews
Women in the professions -- United States -- Biography
Women -- Political activity -- United States -- Biography
Women in public life -- United States -- Biography
Successful people -- United States -- Biography
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations.
Successful people
Women in public life
Women in the professions
Women -- Political activity
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Interviews
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585119872
9780585119878