While corporate America might have initially showed the same tendency Scheible referred to, it eventually adjusted to the influx of women in the workplace. Xerox’s current executive roster, for example, reflects the growing population of women in the industry. Along with other leaders at Hewlett-Packard and IBM, Xerox CEO and chairman Anne Mulcahy and president Ursula Burns both appeared on Fortune magazine’s “Fifty Most Powerful Women in Business” list in 2006. (Mulcahy was ranked second only to the CEO of PepsiCo. Burns was listed at number 27.) With high-profile examples like these, the younger workforce is now less encumbered by assumptions based on gender than the peers of Blauvelt, Carlton and Scheible might have been. Now, the print industry must adapt instead to the constant upheaval brought on by new technology.
Force of Change
Industry veterans reflect on women in the printing industry