Like many other ambitious young women, I hope to enter a field dominated by men. But it’s more daunting than I anticipated. I love writing and politics, so if I could make a career out of doing political...

This is part of a bi-weekly series of profiles about women in business. Of the 500 companies on the 2014 Fortune 500 list, 24 have female CEOs. In 2013, women held 14.6 percent of Fortune 500 executive...