Rosalie Osias relishes the fact that she has become the woman who infuriates the
Feminist Establishment. The reason is simple. Through her not-for-profit foundation
created to study women in the modern American workplace, Osias continues to confront
what she calls the "suffocating hypocrisy" in the Feminist Movement regarding the
existence of sex in the office and its ability to shatter the glass ceiling.
Long before Monica Lewinsky demonstrated how to leverage sex with the boss
into a multi-million dollar book deal, Osias debated, lectured, wrote and researched the
topic and has been nationally heard as a broadcast commentator on this issue. She
counsels that bright women who have been denied access to real wealth and genuine
corporate power can create sexual tension in their work place to help topple the old boy
network.
Osias says her message continues to find a responsive chord among working
women who are beginning to appreciate that all the Feminist rhetoric of the last twenty
years has not made a significant dent in ending male dominance in the corporate world.
She says she is proud of the epithets that have been thrown at her by other
women, including "hard, ruthless, mean-spirited, aggressive, ambitious, and calculating."
She notes, "Those seem to be the attributes of a successful businessman."
Now Osias has gone to the web to help women like herself gain the success that
the Feminist Movement has been incapable of providing.
In her own words:
Welcome to the Osias Foundation Web site. I created and funded the Osias
Foundation as a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing working women with
an honest navigation map on how to break the glass ceiling.
I did so after charting my own course, creating a number of vibrant, successful
corporations and businesses because I didn't like what the male run establishment had
planned for me. My universe is filled with nannies and husbands and clients and children.
This is the real world. And what makes that business world go round is money, power,
influence and sex.
This Web site focuses on how the latest generation of working women can cut
through the irrelevant trivia and ritual instructions of the Feminist Movement. The online
visitor will gain from the experiences of an individual who is far from a casual observer
but, rather, a front line veteran of the battle between the sexes in the office. This Web site
pulls no punches and through its various components you can learn first hand how to
leverage sexuality into money and business opportunities in your working world.
I have always been involved in, and interested in, arenas that have been long
dominated by men. Prior to my creating three law firms with different areas of discipline,
I worked for two of New York City's major law firms, an investment banker, interned in
the Securities division of the New York State Attorney General's Office, and managed five
boutiques simultaneously while finishing my education. I realized quite early that I would
butt heads with men in their bastions of financing and law, so I've spent years developing
and perfecting my strategy to confront and confound them.