When Ramona E. Romero, now general counsel for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was a first-year associate at a large law firm in the 1980s, leather skirts were all the rage.

She went into work one day with the skirt and fishnet stockings on and her 60-something white male, administrative partner pulled her aside. He told her she was a brilliant lawyer working in a law firm.

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