Rose Marie Ray

Edition 2 of SuperWomen Do IT Less...Or a Helluva Lot Better! Came out in 2018. I hope you have that edition and, if not, please send Edition 1 back to Amazon and ask for Edition 2! It has a lot of updated material

As a child, I loved to write poetry, read books, play basketball, soccer, soft ball, run, roller and ice skate and do anything that involved being on Long Island Sound. With four sisters, there were always places to go, people to see, and fun to be had indoors and outdoors. We were always encouraged to be ourselves by our parents who were pretty hands-off when it came to sports and our free time.

In 1961, I got my first job in the computer industry as a ecretary/technical writer of manuals for computer programmers. Working in the information technology industry for over 36 years, I enjoyed a level of success that few women dared to dream of in the 60s. Through on-the-job training in computer programming, systems analysis and design, marketing, and sales, I evolved into a sales executive with six-figure earnings and a penchant for always wanting to push the envelope for women in work.

Writing "SuperWomen Do IT Less..." was my way of paying back all of the women in my life who helped me achieve my success as a mother, wife, professional sales person, and all-around happy and successful woman. In 1992, I was chosen as Texas Women's University's "Autor in Residence" and my book enjoyed a lot of support from the academic community throughout the U.S.

In 2018, I did a second edition to SWDIL, “SuperWomen Do IT Less....Or a Helluva Lot Better.

It is an update to the Edition 1 that was published by Yankee Publishing in 1992. I hope you will read it and get all of the latest information about the help and advice for women in transition.

The first book came out before some of the major equal right and discrimination cases were tried on television, but it does recount my experience in 1975 where I won a path-breaking case in the State of New York for a human rights violation against Honeywell, Inc., for discrimination on the basis of my age and sex and its exclusion of women from management positions. The book was used by Tandem Computers to successfully defend itself from a lawsuit filed when I was fired from my dream job after the book was published. I never got my day in court but did make the Wall Street Journal, front page, when the suit was filed and when I lost in an appeal to the Louisiana court.

Edition 2 of SWDIL covers the period from 1992 whe I started the suit against Tandem and 2017 when there was a lot going on in politics with Hillary Clinton, the first woman candidate, taking a lot of flack for what was perceived as her misuse of a private email server. She deserved none of it. Just typical male angst about women in high positions.

I retired in 1996 from the computer industry when I finally completed by BA in management information systems/business. I bought a bed and breakfast inn in St. Petersburg, FL, with my deceased husband, Robert. It was an excellent way to be in sales, marketing, and operations at the same time as I was bringing in a living for us. I was having fun and meeting and greeting people from all over the world. When Rob died in 2002, it was time to retire from innkeeping. I sold it in 2005 and stay involved by consulting to the hospitality industry.

I have always been very athletic and love to compete now in cycling and triathlon events. My significant other, Sandy Scott, with whom I have been sharing my life since 2004, started racing time trials and road races after I got him out on a bike early in our relationship. It was love at first pedal.

In 2005, Sandy broke his C-1 vertebra in a freaky cycling accident and spent five (5) months in a hard collar. The story of Sandy and his fight to return to cycling, his successful comeback, and hard facts for masters cyclists is my second book: "From Broken Neck to Broken Records, A Masters Cyclist's Guide to Winning," written with Sandy to promote cycling to masters athletes over 35 years old. It is a great story and has been very inpirational and motivational for many people who have been injured in athletics, are retired and doing nothing but watching TV, and who need that little push to get going again in sports.

My children, Pamela Chancey and Ian Ray live in Dallas, TX. Sandy and I live in Florida and are both cycling champions--he has a lot more wins than I do. We work out a lot and have fun representing the State of Florida in senior games including senior olympics and U.S. Cycling Federation events. I am on Team USA and represent the USA in International Triathlon Union, USA Triathlon World Championships. In 2017 I went to Rotterdam, The Netherlands and took 5th place in the world. In 2019 I will go to Lausanne, Switzerland and compete in Sprint triathlon where I hope to get on the podium after three world championships.