Oct. 14, 2011

On Oct. 6, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP brought together a group of accomplished women to discuss core issues affecting professional women, effective marketing and leadership strategies, their own paths to success and to offer key advice to Gibson Dunn's attorneys, clients and several local law students. The event was called "A Roadmap to Success" and was hosted by the firm's Diversity Committee. Approximately 100 people attended A Roadmap to Success and heard from distinguished panelists including: Eleanor Smeal, President and Founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation and Feminist Majority; Linda Deutsch, Associated Press Special Correspondent; Dolores Huerta, President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation and co-founder and First Vice President Emeritus of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO; Martha Raddatz, Senior Foreign Affairs Correspondent for ABC News; and Mavis Leno, Chair of the Feminist Majority Foundation's Campaign for Afghan Women and Girls to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan. Dr. Helen Garrett Boutrous, Chair and Associate Professor of the History & Political Science Department at Mount St. Mary's College, served as the moderator. "The folks who made fun of us said, "They don't want to be lawyers, they want to marry lawyers; they don't want to be doctors, they want to marry doctors." We opened the doors, and women flooded into the law schools and medical schools." Said Eleanor Smeal, president and founder of the Feminist Majority Foundation. "We always had faith in what women could do. You should always have faith in what women can do."