What I learned about women & business today

Friday afternoon is Women & Entrepreneurship, a speaker series with sixty girls... and me. Today we had a panel of five women, all at roughly the vice president level of their respective organizations. Three were from Wall Street, one from NBC, and the last from Campbell Soup. As I walked to class in the rain, the questions raised by today's thread were still fresh in my mind. So I was pleasantly surprised that some of the discussion was useful for understanding why there aren't more female entrepreneurs. Today I discovered something. That is, if you take the time to ask women about their impressions of the business world you can learn some interesting stuff. What follows are some of the more insightful points that were made. I'm not making any claims about "the nature of women." Rather, I'm just echoing what was said. (I'll try to separate my commentary from the actual points.) So, in no particular order: 1) All of the panelists believed that women were just as ambitious as men, b