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At a Ford Foundation staff discussion, in November 1978, of women’s roles across various cultures, a foundation vice-president, Mitchell Sviridoff, lauded women staffers for the quiet internal pressure they had used for two years on behalf of gender rights. Hardly an active advocate of women’s rights—he had been a specialist on labor and social services—Sviridoff was so impressed with what had been internally accomplished that he told the staff that he expected that women could achieve “a position of empowerment.”1 The extraordinary progress in the number of women staff members in the course of several years convinced him that there was no limit as to what levels would be reached. In the course of only thirteen years, 1973–86, the number of professional women staffers doubled from 23 percent to 53 percent.2 |
