Still, Ms. Borenstein says she works about 12 hours a day, often more. But she says that commitment is no different than in any other leadership position. In any job that is rewarding you are going to have to work hard . . . You have got to pay your dues. What is different, she says, is that the pecking order that exists in most established firms is not there and the need to put in time to justify your job is not part of the culture.
Face time is irrelevant.
All the same, the leadership of major Internet firms is still mostly male. One exception to that is eBay itself, with chief executive officer Meg Whitman. Ms. Borenstein says diversity in eBay's leadership does not end there. Many of her counterparts heading operations in other countries are women as well, and she predicts as the industry matures and recovers from its current meltdown, that the eBay example will become the norm, not the exception. Those are traits women have had for centuries.