They also enjoyed influential positions in the Mughal courts.
Eunuchs often acquired influential positions administering wealthy Muslim households.
Only 30% of Salesforce employees are women and few of those women are in influential positions.
While living in Boston, Ms. Fanning also held influential positions at several news organizations.
"We have one of our own in one of the most influential positions around," he said.
Many of Waterstone's early employees now hold influential positions within the publishing industry.
He has built a formidable network across government by promoting his favourites to influential positions and created a considerable powerbase.
Some MEPs have been pressing for Britain to relinquish these influential positions, now the UK is on the way out.
He also held influential positions, editing Poetry Australia in the 1970s and reading submissions for Angus & Robertson until 1991.
For years, he occupied one of the department's most influential positions, directing its day shift of officers on patrol.
But eunuchs still retained influential positions within the government, for the emperor refused to devote himself to statecraft.
