My Boss Is My Role Model, He Is The True Example Of A Manager

"Because you are a woman". That was my boss telling me why I would never go to the Middle East. I was 25, an internal auditor and I would 'never' go to the company's biggest profit center. Over time I was kept out of various places and assignments. I got used to it, being a woman kept me close to the home office, in the decision making room.

29, my boss had moved me to strategic planning working directly with him. A consulting company was hired to help evaluate an acquisition. My boss asked me to go to dinner with the lead manager on our account, a real jerk. I looked at him and I reminded him I was a woman. He understood, he asked that the account manager be replaced with a woman. He apologized to me for putting me in that situation.