I was hired as the Vice President of an American IT company in the 90s. On my first day, I went to meet the President of the business. I was informed at this time that two out of the three General Managers who were supposed to report to me had resigned. One individual resigned as he could not bear to tell his wife that he was reporting to a woman. Another individual left on the grounds that I was from a competitor’s company and also because he did not want to work with a woman. So, out of the three General Managers, two of them had resigned for whatever reasons, but it boiled down to me being a woman. I was completely taken aback as I had never experienced this before. So there were a lot of challenges in terms of accepting women as leaders. But do bear in mind that this was in the 90s. Things have improved a lot now.