The Office Party Has Left the Strip Club
This Was a Year to Celebrate Women’s Victories in the Workplace. New GM CEO Mary Barra Is Just One Example of How Far We’ve Come.
“At least we don’t have office parties in strip clubs anymore,” mused a college friend of mine over a recent end-of-year lunch. She entered a bank training program in the 1980s; we were chatting about the progress women have made in the financial sector. Back then, she said, female bankers or traders could expect—regularly—to fend off sexual harassment and inappropriate comments from male colleagues. Now, she reflected, much of the animal-house culture has dissipated.
A couple of days later, my friend emailed me: “Well, now we have a female CEO …
