Cracks in `glass ceiling';Women set for advances in corporate USA;Experience, demographics in their favor
Still, there are only three woman CEOs of the Fortune 500, and 3% of Fortune 500 senior executives are women, up one percentage point from 1985. [Regina Herzlinger] predicts women won't enter the ranks of Fortune 500 CEOs in large numbers until 2010. ``By my arithmetic, the ones we have now are total miracles.''
EAR CUTLINE:[Judy Lewent]: `Never been impeded.' CUTLINE:SIGN OF THE TIMES: Judy Lewent, recently named chief financial officer of pharmaceutical giant Merck & Co., is one of a handful of women holding top posts at major companies.
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