The Businesswoman

“Nothing bothered Ellen Jones more than when, as a teenager, her brother declared
that a woman should be a housewife and nothing more. Since then, she had no
other objective than to become an independent woman. She studied like a maniac
and, even though she was extremely competent, needed to work twice as hard
as her male classmates. She knew that for a woman, it was two times harder to
succeed in a man’s world.
Today, as general manager of Ethical Planet Corporation, a company of 3,000
employees, when she thinks of what her brother had once said, she closes her
eyes and a smile comes to her lips.”