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Margaret Selwood, Bobby Thornburg, Carly Fiorina and Conrad Mehan discuss the glass ceiling and what women have done to break that ceiling at the Workhouse Prison Museum on April 2.

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‘Breaking the Glass Ceiling’ Discussed in Lorton

Event was part of ‘American Women: The Long and Winding Road.’

Right before Carly Fiorina, the first woman CEO of a Fortune 20 company, began her first day as CEO of Hewlett-Packard in 1999, she prepared for questions she thought she might receive regarding innovation and future growth of the company. After all, she was the first outsider and non-engineer to lead the company, so she wanted to think about those important questions.

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