I am faculty in a major research university where many of my colleagues are highly accomplished and talented women. It was a major realization for me that I have achieved my own successes in a fashion stylistically most similar to successful women, not via the classical alpha male roles. In the academic environment, this works very well but I suspect being the alpha female (incidentally very different from the male alpha behaviors) is a very successful model for success and has been for quite a while in this environment.
