


Wimbledon Championships
Breaking New Ground: Women At The Helm
Breaking New Ground: Women At The Helm

At the helm of a ship early in her career with the U.S. Coast Guard, Sandra Stosz was given an ultimatum: "You stand on the bridge like John Wayne with a six-gun in each hand barking orders and then I'll qualify you." Stosz, a 1978 graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, the third class to accept women, refused to change her calm but firm leadership style for her male supervisor. "There was this perception that if you were polite and you asked, then you were giving up some of your authority or power, so the men would be more apt to bark orders and show dominance," Stosz said. "I didn't have any need for that. I asked, they went and did it, and...