Cathleen P. Black: Role Model

Cathleen P. Black, between New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (left) and 

outgoing New York City Schools Superintendent Joel Klein.

There is a great story in today's New York Times about Cathleen P. Black, Mayor Michael Bloomberg's choice to become New York City Schools Superintendent. According to the Times:

"She grew up sheltered and privileged, in a middle-class Irish enclave of Chicago at midcentury, attending Catholic schools and riding horses at a country club where blacks and Jews were not allowed. Yet from age 28, she blazed a trail for working women, persuading male-dominated Madison Avenue to get behind an upstart magazine called Ms."

One of Black's colleague's even referred to her as "the closest thing to Superman that exists.”

Click here to read the article and learn how Cathleen Black has managed to shatter the Glass Ceiling and move out of the Velvet Ghetto.