From that day on her mother became the family provider, and Steel learned her first lessons of male/female equality from her mother.
During her adolescence Steel grew into a perfectionist, trying to win her mother's approval, a trait that would remain with Steel throughout her varied career. She recognized that her mother worked hard, but Steel also sensed her mother was only working a job and not pursuing a career. Steel decided she would have a career. Steel went to college to escape her parents' home. First she attended Boston University, and then transferred to New York University, where she was the only woman in the business school.
Early Employment
In 1968 Steel quit school and took her first full-time job. This first job was as a receptionist for a garment company. A few months later she switched companies, and then became the receptionist for the Stadia Publishing Company, which published sports books. She advanced from receptionist to secretary, and eventually even became a sportswriter. The sports business was where she experienced, first-hand, the inequality between males and females.
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