"And offering a promotion or expanded responsibilities to a young woman almost always provokes a response something like 'Oh I don't know if I can do that' or 'Are you sure I could do that' or 'I'm not positive I could take that on,'" she said.
Despite the bench coach's expanding responsibilities, the manager, Francona said, has the final say.
"But I am really just continuing to do what I have done, with some expanded responsibilities and the same team.
The New York Times Company announced on Wednesday that two main members of its advertising department would take on expanded responsibilities as group vice presidents.
Under the act, the sleepy futures commission is given vastly expanded responsibilities for overseeing previously unregulated financial instruments known as swaps.
Mr. Dooner, 52, gave as his reason his new, expanded responsibilities as the chairman and chief executive at the Interpublic Group of Companies in New York.
Lisa Caputo, Citigroup's chief marketing officer, is expected to take expanded responsibilities steering a new council, on which Mr. Pandit will sit, that will manage and position the global Citi brand, people briefed on the changes said.
The report also raised two troubling administrative issues facing the I.R.S. — the agency's growing reliance on tax liens for collections and its greatly expanded responsibilities under the new health care law.
Given a 20% pay rise last year, a reflection of his expanded responsibilities, Stephenson has been tipped for great things but ruled himself out of the race (won by Charlotte Moore) to succeed Danny Cohen as BBC1 controller.
Mr. Timothy was president of the NBC Television Network and NBC's entertainment division in the early 1980s, then was promoted to group executive vice president of NBC, with expanded responsibilities for business matters.
