Fired Up Women of the Week: An Award Winner and a Car Saleswoman
Posted on | October 13, 2009 |
Not a week goes by when there aren’t firsts for women (which is sad, considering that we still have to have firsts, but I digress) and this week is no different. This week we have the first female Economics Nobel Prize winner and the first female top sales person at General Motors.
First up is Elinor Ostrom from Indiana University who was the first woman to ever win a Nobel Prize in Economics. She told NPR that she wasn’t allowed to do trigonometry when she was younger because she’d end up “barefoot and pregnant.” Apparently the Nobel Committee thought otherwise, and instead thought that Ostrom:
Challenged the conventional wisdom that common property is poorly managed and should be either regulated by central authorities or privatized. Based on numerous studies of user-managed fish stocks, pastures, woods, lakes, and groundwater basins, Ostrom concludes that the outcomes are, more often than not, better than predicted by standard theories.
Second we have the newest top woman at GM…well top woman in sales that is. Last week, GM promoted Susan Docherty to the top sales position in the company, marking the first time a woman has held that position at what once was the most powerful automotive company in the world:
Docherty’s promotion to vice president of U.S. sales means she will become the first and only woman on CEO Fritz Henderson’s newly formed, nine-person executive committee. She replaces Mark LaNeve, who is leaving the company for a position at Allstate Corp.
Well done Susan and Elinor! Way to make new strides for women everywhere!
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