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to enter the high-tech sector. By 2016, approximately 40% of the management positions at the Kiryat Gat plant were held by women, compared to 33% at other Intel factories in Israel. Fassberg herself often experienced prejudice and stereotyping as a woman in senior management. When she co-managed the
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as a lithography engineer in 1983. She spent the next 33 years in key positions in that company, including factory manager, plant manager, and general manager (CEO) of Intel Israel. She retired in
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