factures products for commercial, space, and defense aircraft. “Tese are interesting places to work. Tey are rich environments and women should not vet themselves out. Women should not feel put-off.” Adams left private practice in 2003


Kate


Adams Senior Vice President and General Counsel


to join Honeywell as a litigator and rose to legal chief over its performance materials division. Five years ago, she was promoted to her current post when her male predecessor retired.


IT’S NOT ALWAYS EASY, BUT … Still, the choice to work in a tradition- ally male-dominated business doesn’t always come easily. A. Verona Dorch says that if not for her two-and-a-half years as the sole, non-Japanese lawyer at a Tokyo chemical company, she would not have found the moxie to enter a mostly male industry. Eight years ago, a recruiter told


28 A. Verona


Dorch Vice President, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary


Dorch, an African-American who grew up in the New York City bor- ough of Brooklyn, about vacancies at two hard hat companies. One was at a Fortune® 50 company. Te other was at Harsco Corporation in the small, central Pennsylvania town of Camp Hill, where Caucasians make up more than 90 percent of the population. Harsco provides outsourced services for steel mills and other metal-pro- ducing operations and equipment for railway track maintenance. Dorch knew nothing about the industries comprising Harsco’s port-


Dorch figured they were testing her, so she took them aside, privately and individually after the meetings, to explain why the comments were unsettling. By building relationships with these men, the comments quickly subsided, she says.


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Photo courtesy of Harsco Corporation


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