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  By Emily Harrison Weir "Yes, there is a glass ceiling for women. But when I started to work, it was in the laundry room. Today, it's in the great room‹the one with twenty-four-foot ceilings‹so we've come a long way," said Roberta Puschel '65, managing director at J. P. Morgan and former vice president of New York's Federal Reserve Bank. "Today we're in the mainstream of our organizations. We're playing with the big boys now." Puschel was one of five high-ranking corporate alumnae who shared their experiences at "Smashing the Glass Ceiling: Women Discuss Power and Gender in the Corporate World." The March event was the inaugural symposium of the Center for Leadership and Public Interest Advocacy.Although the women's experiences and career fields were quite varied, certain common themes emerged. Willingness to work as hard and as long as it takes to get the job done well, ability to travel frequently and to do self-promotion, and the need for lots of personal energy and a sense of humor were frequently mentioned. Several noted the loss of personal and family time as costs of career achievement. Among their suggestions for corporate success:
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