Promoted female Pepsi chief told to ‘get some milk’
Her mother stopped her at the stairs. “Let the news wait,” Nooyi remembers her saying. “Can you go out and get some milk?”
Even though Nooyi’s husband had been home for hours (“He’s tired,” her mother reasoned) and the family employed several housekeepers at the time, she dutifully went to the store and returned shortly thereafter, slamming the carton on the kitchen counter.
