Take a group of high-achievers, put them together around a boardroom table, and give them ultimate fiduciary responsibility for a corporation, and some very interesting interpersonal stuff happens.

It's hard to believe, but less than a generation ago both sexes considered it somehow unfeminine for a woman to be smart about money. No longer. "The new attitude is, it's not only okay for women to actively manage their own money, it's almost dopey not to…

The following contains an excerpt from a 1978 testimony before Congress on “Public policy and the future of work and retirement”.

We all know the story.

Young woman, newly minted from college whose work experience consists of an internship or two, gets a job with a large, male-dominated organization and quickly befriends one of the few other females in the office: an older, more experienced, maternal figure who knows the ropes and seems willing to teach her.

Volumes are being written these days about what's happening in the workplace. But Ronna Lichtenberg believes one big problem is what isn't happening: good, old-fashioned mentoring.