The Trials And Triumphs Of Heidi Cruz
“When I came out of Washington and the White House, I didn’t feel that there was really a glass ceiling in the administration … and Texas was very different,” she would later say in a 2011 panel discussion. She was the only woman in Goldman’s Houston office, and described fumbling with hunting lingo during conversations with male clients. In the “very traditional culture” where she lived, few of the women in their social circles had careers.
.. She began taking her husband — the accomplished attorney with Supreme Court war stories to spare — to dinners with male clients and colleagues. “He’s very useful to me and interesting to clients, so it always helps me to bring in more business when I bring him along,” she would tell an audience of Claremont’s aspiring female financiers in 2011.
.. She advised, too, that live-in help can be critical for working couples.