"What's a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?"
发布时间 2021-03-26 19:20:18 来源
摘要
Three women from the Class of ’72 discuss what it was like to be at Stanford GSB when the school was 98% male — and resurrect their provocative “we belong here” presentation that got everyone’s attention.
Fifty years ago, in 1971, only five of Stanford GSB’s 308 first-year MBAs were women. The summer after their first year, three of those women — Susan Phillips, Anne Thornton, and Barbara West, who were in the same class section — joined forces to document the challenges they faced trying to navigate a male-dominated business culture. The result was a voluntary presentation titled “What’s a Nice Girl Like You Doing in a Place Like This?” — the exact question they’d been asked several times by faculty and peers. Fortunately, slides and recordings of that original presentation still exist. In honor of Women’s History Month, we recently gathered the trio together via Zoom to share their stories about what it was like to be businesswomen at a time when the world expected them to stay home.
Many thanks to Luther Nussbaum, MBA ’72, for restoring the original presentation from the archival images, audio clips, and typewritten transcript — a major creative effort that enabled us to bring this project back to life.
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