 When assessing performance and achievement, volume sales and profits fostered corporate advancement and moving up in management more often than other jobs traditionally associated with women.In addition to creating management training courses for corporations and giving sales seminars for women, Siegel was a sought after public speaker for workshops and conferences.In 1989, Siegel and her husband retired and moved first to the Florida Keys and later to Gainesville, Florida, where she died after a lengthy battle with Alzheimer's disease on September 29, 2005.