CHAPTER 9

BIG MOTOR GIRLS

Most women aren’t chief executives or even one level below. Most women didn’t go to Harvard. Most women don’t work at Goldman or Google. Most women weren’t steeped in Silicon Valley. Most women can’t hire the village. Most women are doing their best. Most women are exhausted.

“Who cares if some elite crowd is assembling behind closed doors?” they say. “What’s in it for me?”

Most women should know: These aren’t just prominent mainstays consolidating their power, or exceptional upstarts rattling the cage. This is happening everywhere. Women launching small businesses. Women frustrated in or laid off from corporate jobs. Women who want to reenter the workforce after having left to raise children. They’re all forming and ...

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