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<\/p>\nI\u2019m sure you know the details, but I\u2019ll briefly go over them just in case you don\u2019t. IBM recently named Virginia Rometty as their new CEO. She\u2019s been with the company since 1981 when she was hired as an engineer. For the last 30 years, she\u2019s been using that big beautiful brain of hers, her sophisticated good looks, and the skills she was gifted with at birth in order to elevate herself to CEO of a fortune 500 tech company. Yes, not only is she now the CEO of a fortune 500 company, but she\u2019s also the first woman to be CEO of IBM since it started 100 years ago in 1911. Similarly, Heather Bresch was recently named CEO of Mylan Inc. and last month Meg Whitman was named CEO of Hewlett-Packard. That means that two of the largest technology companies that exist right now have female CEOs and that pushes the total number of female CEOs that work for fortune 500 companies up to 18. Sounds small, but it\u2019s a pretty big step for us.<\/p>\n
Rometty becoming CEO is fabulous for several reasons, the first being that she not only became CEO in a male-dominated industry, but she became CEO of a company\u00a0 known for its extremely low number of woman executives within that male-dominated industry. Not only that, but IBM managed to stay away from women for nearly 100 years. That’s hard to do. \u00a0In addition, because this gender change is such a big deal due to IBM’s history, Rometty and her new role at the company is extremely visible. A hot topic if you will. Ideally, she’ll inspire more young women to study computer technologies, work in IT jobs, and know that they can be executives at fortune 500 tech companies or any company they want, because honestly, those things aren\u2019t at the top of the to-do list for most ladies. Speaking as a lady\u00a0who works in an extremely male-dominated industry, I can tell you stories that would make you fall out of your chair and have you nodding your head in agreement that sometimes the fight for gender equality just takes a lot out of you. Rometty made a path and gifts the idea of possibility to other women.<\/p>\n
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Rometty\u2019s accomplishment is huge, and the trail she and other female CEOs created will hopefully start pulling the younger generation of ladies into other corners of the executive work force along with the other dark and damp bits of industry that have yet to be touched significantly by women. I\u2019m inspired by her path and hope\u00a0 it means that in the near future \u201cwere you sexually abused\u201d won\u2019t be a question included in my interviews and that potential employers\u00a0won\u2019t say things like, \u201cI\u2019m not sure why you want to work in this industry. Guess it\u2019s because of all the men.\u201d<\/p>\n
So thank you, Virginia Rometty. I appreciate the work you\u2019ve done to even the playing field for all us ladies, and I hope that in the near future, enormous accomplishments that women make won\u2019t have to be identified as a breakthrough for our gender, but rather that they will simply be par for the course.<\/p>\n
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