Technical women on corporate boards
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Penny Herscher, once a math major at Cambridge in the UK, Jill S. Tietjen, a power engineer; E. Gail de Planque, a radiation physicist, and Judith Estrin, a computer communications engineer who has founded several companies sit on various corporate boards in the United States. They are women with technical credentials and they serve in technical industries. Board positions are considered symbols of power, but directors are meant to oversee operation of a corporation, protecting stockholders, reviewing financial performance, seeing that laws and ethical standards are upheld. In the US, 471 women are board members of Fortune 500 companies, 11.1% of total membership, according to the 1998 Catalyst Census of Women Board Directors. The four women above, who in some cases sit on multiple boards, have been interviewed for this report on their board activities.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1999
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The media event: U.S. versus Microsoft - does anyone care?
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Consumers do not seem very interested in the antitrust proceedings surrounding Microsoft even though daily updates are being supplied by various media. The concern of the government of the United States and of the 19 states which have joined with it to bring a lawsuit against Microsoft, software maker, has been that control of a sector gives power and profit and can force others out. Economists and programmers discussing meanings of software terms seem to generate little interest compared with that generated by some other recent high-profile trials involving sex, and humor related to Microsoft is hard for anyone but insiders to appreciate.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1999
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