Catalyst | Harvard Business Review Say America's Top Women Are Going�Nowhere - Feminism, Women's Lives Journal - AnneofCarversville.com

Catalyst | Harvard Business Review Say America's Top Women Are Going�Nowhere - Feminism, Women's Lives Journal - AnneofCarversville.com: "The word quota system in America is heresy. We’re a meritocracy, where ambition and hard work will pay off eventually. Yet all theories are disproven when studying the place of women in American business and politics.

Photos like this one from last week’s Women in Finance Symposium send a misleading story. Yes, Sheila Bair of the F.D.I.C., Mary Schapiro of the S.E.C., Christina Romer of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Elizabeth Warren of the Troubled Asset Relief Program have risen to assume prominent roles in the finance world, although largely regulatory."