Marianne Lake is retiring from JPMorgan Chase.
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There was a moment, not that long ago, when it seemed as if corporate America might be at beginning of a golden age for female chief executive officers.
You wouldn’t have known it by looking at the very top of big company’s corporate organization charts, which featured nearly as many men named John as it did the total number of women holding down the same job.