Only a very small percentage persons in management positions in the 1950s were women.
<span>It depends also what you call a "manager." If you count someone running their own small restaurant or shop a business, then a larger number of women could have been counted as "managers." A December 1955, article in <em>FORTUNE </em>magazine, titled, “Who Is an Executive?” estimated that there were roughly 250,000 "real" executives in the US, and that the number of those who were female was certainly less than 5,000. </span>
