All of the action in business is international.
Executives often resist sending women.
She saw firsthand what women may face on overseas assignments in 1996 when she worked as faculty adviser on a college trip to Prague, the Czech Republic. She was the only female teacher and one of five women on the trip that included 35 people. Four women were graduate students. And an entrepreneur who addressed us talked only to the men and brought neckties for them. He didn't even see the five of us.