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This is the personal account of a determined professional woman who fought against sexual discrimination by a major accounting firm and won. Widely reported in Time, Fortune, the New York Times Magazine, and other national news media, Ann Branigar Hopkins's lawsuit against Price Waterhouse was carried through the federal courts where, in a landmark decision, she was awarded the promotion she had earned. When Hopkins first was nominated for partnership at Price Waterhouse in 1982, she was the only woman among eighty-eight candidates. Of all the nominees, she had the best record for generating…
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1 edition- Other · English · 1996University of Massachusetts Press · 410 pages · 9781558490512
BiographyLaw and legislationPrice Waterhouse (Firm)Sex discrimination in employmentTrials, litigationWomen executives