A Young Woman in an Older Man’s World
My career in media and politics has thrown me into the inner corridors of the so-called “Old Boys’ Club.” I was allowed in because either I was their executive assistant or their speech writer or their political campaign manager or their chief-of-staff.
These are positions that are crucial to any politician’s life, the type of job that practically allows you to manage not only their public lives, but also their private ones. So they have no choice but to let me into their world.
Of course, being young and female, people automatically assume either of two things: (1) I was related by blood to the boss (daughter or niece or granddaughter); or (2) I was the girlfriend or mistress of the boss.