My Facebook newsfeed is alight with lively celebration of Marissa Mayer, both because she is a young, talented woman and because she announced her pregnancy on the same day as the Yahoo CEO news. As the post below notes, she is giving YAHOO a whole new meaning for women looking for relatable, or at least inspiring, role models. Out of these public and private media Marissa celebrations, it seems a new zeitgeist is developing around the importance of women with topics as diverse as the obvious- Influential Women in Silicon Valley - to the should be obvious- Why Women Matter Online She joins the ranks of the all too limited women running Fortune 500 companies. According to Catalyst, a NYC nonprofit that researches womens issues, Marissa becomes the record 20th female CEO of fortune 500 companies. Whether Marissa likes it or not, the pregnancy news was truly the icing on an already great success story. Women are still digesting how to have an impact after the recent Anne-Marie Slaughter a
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