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You've Come a Long Way Baby
Filed in archive General by Deborah Brown on October 24, 2006
You've Come a Long Way Baby
Will 2008 find the United States led by a woman president?

I'm not sure, but women are certainly on the rise in this country in business.

In the Fortune 500 only 8.7% of businesses were run by women in 1995 and just ten years later than number has doubled.

Wells fargo/Gallup Small Business Index states that women business owners have now surpassed the 10 million mark nationwide. When asked about their optimism for the future, 95% feel they are successful, 60% expect their companies' revenues to increase in the next year and 43% say they earn more per hour as a small business owner.

In the October 16th edition of Fortune magazine, the 50 Most Powerful Women were featured with Indra Rising, CEO of PepsiCo leading the way.

I'm reminded of a television commercial from the 70's in which a scantily-clad woman opens the door at the end of the day to her man. The vocalist sings:

"I can bring home the bacon,
Fry it up in the pan
And never, ever let you
Forget you're a man.
Cuz I'm a woman...
W.O.M.A.N."

Helen Reddy's theme song of the 70's "I am Woman Hear Me Roar" seemed rather campy at the time. And remember the Virginia Slims ad "You've come a long way baby?"

Well, ain't it the truth.


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