It’s been 35 years since I became the first female president of The Phillipian, so I was both delighted and disheartened to be asked to contribute to this conversation about gender and leadership on the Andover campus. Delighted because it’s always nice to be remembered; disheartened because — sheesh, have we still not come any further than this?

Well, no, we haven’t, as I know from my own world as well as yours. Certainly there are more women in newsrooms than there were when I began...