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The Rise to Leadership in Fortune and Non-Fortune 500 Organizations

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American Black Women and Interpersonal Leadership Styles

Part of the book series: Transgressions ((TRANS,volume 103))

Abstract

Women entered the workforce enmass during World War II with the the entry of approximately six million workers. Rosie the Riverter symbolizes the working woman during World War II. While this is notable, it represents a diminishment of all the American Black women who were already in the workplace and who were excluded from social security benefits and all other federal benefits because they were limited to domestic care workers (Coates, 2014).

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