Quick Hit: Breaking glass ceilings and stereotypes
Yet another reason I'm proud to be a New Yorker.
Of the top five women executives in New York State, their businesses consist not of fashion or a perfume line, but of cars, computers, electronics, construction and envelopes.
Hotness.
h/t to MAC.
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Rallye Motors Holding - Juliana Terian became chairman after her husband who founded the company died.
J&R Music and Computer World - Rachelle Friedman cofounded with her husband who was an electrical engineer.
Henegan Construction Co. - Maureen A. Henegan inherited the company founded by her father.
Turtle & Hughes Inc. - Suzanne T. (Turtle) Millard was a housewife in Greenwich, Conn., in 1970 when she inherited control of Turtle & Hughes Inc. founded by her grandfather.
National Envelope Company - Founded by Bill Ungar in 1952 and who founded the firm in 1952, now owned by him and his four daughters own National Envelope; chairman and CEO Nathan Moser is Bill Ungar's son-in-law.
I was just curious about these companies and didn't intend on posting until I found that 5/5 they all either inherited or cofounded with their husbands.
I found this gem from reading articles about these women:
"For Beatrice Ortega, forming her own company was hard work, too. She founded Dot Construction in 1998 and still runs the painting and taping company out of her Bronx apartment, where she has fitted out a spare bedroom with three phones and three Dell computers.
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Ortega agreed. 'Women are smarter than men, women are better listeners than men, women are better problem solvers than men,' she said."
And I bet they're even more modest than men!
Unsurprising, considering fashion and perfume are now quite solidly men's domains as well.