Nuclear titan combats French peers and bias against women
By Steven Erlanger | New York Times | Updated: 2011-05-08 07:49
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In France, "you have the idea that if it's very serious, or it's a really attractive job, why not for a man?" Anne Lauvergeon Ed Alcock for The New York Times |
PARIS - Anne Lauvergeon is one of the most prominent female executives in Europe, and one of the most independent- minded - perhaps too much so for France's male-dominated elite. She is fighting for her job as head of one of France's largest nuclear enterprises, the largely state-owned Areva, and as usual here, the battle is as much personal as professional.
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