“When Janet Yellen takes over the reins of the Federal Reserve on Monday, she will become one of the most powerful women in the world — a historic achievement that she has yet to fully embrace,” the Washington Post reports.
“Her status has been trumpeted by others — she is featured in a Microsoft commercial “celebrating the heroic women of 2013” and heralded by glossy magazine Marie Claire as having ‘triumphed over the haters’ — but Yellen has been reticent about the role that her sex has played in her four-decade career. She has even instructed staff members that her new title be simply ‘chair,’ rather than ‘chairwoman.'”
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