Eileen McDonnell, the Chairman & CEO of Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, discusses her Irish heritage, breaking the glass ceiling, and the way forward.
When parents tell their children that they can do anything, it’s all too often taken with too many grains of salt. But Eileen McDonnell believed her parents. She had no reason not to. And it served her well. When she was applying for a vice president job, a position held by no other women in the company, she brushed off people citing her gender as a reason she wouldn’t get it, telling them that it was irrelevant. They may as well have been saying she was unqualified because she had had chicken for dinner the night before. She knew she could do the job, and that was the only qualification that mattered.
helicopter just kind of jumps up, and it is in your throat. working on a project like this being from southern louisiana makes us feel like we are doing something to protect the marshlands and the wildlife and keep the state from being infected with oil that is bill mcdonnell our producer doing that report. and president obama pitches the stimulus plan, but shouldn t he be focusing on the gulf oil spill crisis instead? that is what some are asking like dennis kucinich, and eric ericson, and they will join john king usa at the top of the hour. and newly released documents raising questions about the supreme court nominee elena kagan and what they are and how possibly they could affect the confirmation hearings. stay with us. you are in the situation room. this site has a four-star hotel for $159.