00:00Tonight, our series, Breaking Through, Women on the Job.
00:04One of the most successful women in American business ever, a living legend in the American
00:09advertising business.
00:1152 years old, Lazarus is CEO of Ogilvy & Mather, the seventh largest advertising firm in the
00:17world.
00:18I always say my career was marked by these moments where someone would come into my office
00:24and throw another title on me.
00:26And then, an hour later, I think, oh God, I'm not ready for that, but fine, whatever,
00:31if that's what they want me to do, okay.
00:35So there were all these women who were emerging and the train really was moving.
00:41We put an almost completely unknown woman on the cover.
00:45It was a woman who was in charge of the biggest division of Lucent Technologies at the time.
00:50It was a woman named Carly Fiorina.
00:52The following summer, she gets recruited to be the new CEO of Hewlett Packard.
00:58There had never been a woman running such a large company.
01:03As a woman, how could you be anything but thrilled?
01:07It's human nature.
01:08If you can see something about yourself in that person, then you can dream to be what they
01:14are.
01:15Meg Whitman, CEO, a working mom worth $1 billion.
01:20Part of the magic of me coming to eBay was I had been in business.
01:25I understood financials.
01:27You have to make money.
01:28And we ran a very lean shop.
01:31An American woman of Asian heritage who has just become one of the few women chief executive
01:37officers of a Fortune 500 company.
01:39I could just take a deep breath and say, no matter what happens to me, even tomorrow,
01:43I've made it.
01:47I remember somebody saying, did you want to be a CEO?
01:49And I'm like, no, I didn't.
01:50It was sort of, I would have an experience.
01:53I'd see someone operating at that level and say, you can be a CEO.
01:58We saw role models for the first time that were really making a break into the top.
02:03And that was the excitement.
02:05Mulcahy, a wife and mother of two, has climbed the corporate ladder and is now CEO of the $15
02:11billion company.
02:12I think women have to see that it's possible.
02:17She ended up handing off Xerox to Ursula Burns.
02:21And that actually was the first woman to woman handoff ever in the Fortune 500.
02:27For the first time, an African-American woman is going to head a Fortune 500 company.
02:32Ursula Burns will now be the CEO.
02:36My only job was at Xerox Corporation.
02:39I was alive 50 years.
02:4030 years of it was in this place.
02:43To now be told that all that time culminated in you being given the honor to run it.
02:49I was flabbergasted.
