I used to work for a CTO who had his prior company bought in one of the largest acquisitions in SV history. His opinion is that there is a large untapped talen

I used to work for a CTO who had his prior company bought in one of the largest acquisitions in SV history. His opinion is that there is a large untapped talent pool of older (40+) smart, college-educated women who had been maybe been stay-at-home moms who made great candidates for executive assistants. His assistant was one such woman. She was very well paid, pulling down 6 figures. His view is that they are loyal (most important quality for him), extremely reliable, and can be delegated complex tasks. While his assistant did do things like make his travel arrangements and schedule his meetings, she also did a lot of his grunt work, write emails, make powerpoint decks, write conference speeches, write papers/articles for him. By this, I mean she often generated the content (with input from others of course). Without her, he would be totally ineffective. You could always tell when he had to make a slide himself because it was usually full of typos. At one time, she was a shared resource with our former CEO. After the company went public, I recall overhearing a conversation where she was explaining to our CEO what he needed to do to fly commercial (he had not flown commercial since the 90s). She had a a great way of handling situations like that and could be firm without being condescending.