How to Shatter the Glass Ceiling: Sprichst du Deutsch?
ByProjectManhattan(Own Work),CreativeCommons.
She’s worked with dudes named Wolfgang, Helmut, and Vladimir. They’ve been known to call her boring, a beta-female, and clueless. She doesn’t get mad. She gets their jobs.
She’s learned to deflect bullies and has overcome an urge to burst into tears. She was once shot at by the Taliban in a helicopter over Afghanistan and stayed cool as a cucumber.
This boring beta-babe has been in the limelight of late. Five biographies have just been published in Dutch, German, French and English.
Angela’s Office,Jurgen Matern,CreativeCommons.
As for age discrimination, at sixty-three she is in no imminent danger of losing her job. Last Sunday Angela Merkel was re-elected Chancellor of Germany – a title she has shrewdly retained since 2005.