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The tipping point: When do female leaders become the norm?

Ariel Investments president Mellody Hobson onstage at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Summit

IF WOMEN RAN THE COUNTRY, THE LEADERSHIP would probably look like the crowd at Fortune’s annual Most Powerful Women Summit. The usual male-female ratio is reversed. For three days, you can visit a parallel universe where the high-level leaders in every conceivable field are women—onstage, in the audience, at the hotel bar. Gone is the lone female general or CEO in a group shot of guys in suits; instead she’s just

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