The news had barely broken of Marissa Mayer’s appointment to be Yahoo’s next CEO before another happy announcement issued from the ex-Google executive: she’s pregnant. The idea of a young, pregnant, female, pregnant CEO taking the helm of tech’s most infamously messed up company — while pregnant! — was too much to resist for business pundits.
Being Pregnant Is the Least of Marissa Mayer’s Challenges
The news had barely broken of Marissa Mayer’s appointment to be Yahoo’s next CEO before another happy announcement issued from the ex-Google executive: she’s pregnant. The idea of a young, pregnant, female, pregnant CEO taking the helm of tech’s most infamously messed up company — while pregnant! — was too much to resist for business […]
July 18, 2012
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