Your Job Working overseas can be a passport to advancement In 1976, when Lyric Merrie Hughes founded Hughes International Corp., a Chicago international marketing communications firm, she saw few U.S. women working overseas, particularly married women or women with children. 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.