Do as I Do.
So how did young women today develop such go-get-‘em flair? Some believe it’s from seeing strong, powerful women in the mainstream media, like power-lawyer Miranda Hobbes on Sex and the City and Ms. President on Commander-in-Chief. On a more serious note, perhaps today’s college girls have been influenced by the ten women serving as CEOs of Fortune 500 companies or super-strong gals like Katie Couric and Jill Carroll taking on the media and communications. Dr. Hill offers other reasoning: “Before Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, employers could—and did—refuse to hire women for occupations deemed ‘unsuitable.’ They fired women when they became pregnant or limited their work schedule because they were female. Schools could—and did—set quotas for the number of women admitted or refused admission to women altogether. In the decades since these civil rights laws were enacted, women have made remarkable progress in fields such as law, medicine and business, as well as in nontraditional ‘blue-collar’ jobs like airplane pilots, fire fighters and auto mechanics. Collectively, women have demonstrated that they have the skills and the intelligence to do any job.”