The Huffington Post
By Patricia Handschiegel
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Entrepreneur Nell Melrino is the kind of woman a woman wants to be. She had a successful company when she realized the importance of exposing young girls to opportunities in business and positive role models and invented "Take Our Daughters to Work Day" in 1992. When she did she took on the suits with a suit, leveraging a now famous research study to convince corporations across the country to support the effort. That study said that by 2009, women would make up an enormous part of our workforce.
Today, they do. Half of U.S. workers are female in America.
