Reaching for new heights

When Susanna Chiu was born, her mother apologised to her paternal grandfather for not giving birth to a son for the family.

Her mother had no need to say sorry - the baby girl went on to achieve many things to make her family proud. Among those many achievements was Chiu's election late last year as president of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the first woman to break through the glass ceiling - an unseen, impenetrable corporate barrier affecting the rise of women and minorities - to head up the organisation in its 40-year history.

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