Nowadays, it is not difficult to see successful women around us, but many people consider those women as creations of men, who resemble Eliza Doolittle, the character in Pygmalion, a famous play written by George Bernard Shaw about a professor who transforms an ordinary flower girl into a lady. Just like Eliza Doolittle, are the successful women around us made by men? Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, chosen as one of the most powerful business women of 2013 by Fortune magazine, clearly shows that successful modern women are not like Eliza Doolittle. On their journey to adulthood, Mayer and Eliza have taken different paths. In Pygmalion, Eliza, the poor common flower girl, meets Professor Higgins while they wait for the rain to stop. When she meets him, she discovers that he is a professor. in phonetics. Later, she realizes that he can help her speak like a lady, so she can work in a flower shop instead of working outdoors, so she goes to his house to ask him to teach her. Since he has never had any formal education and doesn't even know that he needs to fix his grammar to be gentlemanly, he said, "I don't want to talk about grammar" (Shaw, 32), when he tells Colonel Pickering, that he bets with Higgins whether Higgins can turn her into a lady or not, that it will be difficult to fix her grammar. Furthermore, she was born into a poor, motherless family, which her father, Mr. Doolittle, implies by saying, “No: that is not the natural way, Colonel: it is only the middle-class way. My way has always been undeserving” (Shaw, 97), when Pickering asked him about his mother. However, unlike Eliza, Mayer lived her early days in a small family with parents who love her; he played with friends, studied in formal institutes and had many experiences, such as......middle of paper......IIT Graduates to Find Their Passion. IIT, May 18, 2009. Web. December 12, 2013. Taylor, Felicia. “Passion is a gender-neutralizing force.” CNN. Cable News Network, April 5, 2012. Web. December 12, 2013. .Sellers, Patricia. “How Yahoo CEO Mayer Solved 1,000 Problems.” RSS postcards. CNN, October 22, 2013. Web. December 11, 2013. .Pepitone, Julianne. “Marissa Mayer Extends Yahoo Maternity Leave.” CNNMoney. Cable News Network, April 30, 2013. Web. December 12, 2013. "The 50 Most Powerful Women in Business 2013." CNNMoney. Cable News Network, 2013. Web. December 06, 2013.Sloan, Paolo. “Google's Marissa Mayer Becomes CEO of Yahoo.” CNET News. CBS Interactive, July 16, 2012. Web. December 12. 2013.