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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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A professor of economics at Carnegie Mellon University presents a practical guide for bringing gender equity to the workplace and how women can overcome the hurdles of being tasked with work that often goes unrewarded.
Author
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"An essential resource for any working woman, What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering office politics as a woman. Authored by Joan C. Williams, one of the nation's most-cited experts on women and work, and her daughter, writer Rachel Dempsey, this unique book offers a multi-generational perspective into the realities of today's workplace. Often women receive messages that they have only themselves to blame...
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Language
English
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Description
"Katty Kay and Claire Shipman delve into the nature of power in the workplace, in politics, and at home-explaining how our existing power structures were designed for men, and how a new structure, one determined by and for women, is emerging and will be better for all"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
Going beyond the message of Lean In and The Confidence Code, Gannett's Chief Content Officer contends that to achieve parity in the office, women don't have to change—men do—and in this inclusive and realistic handbook, offers solutions to help professionals solve gender gap issues and achieve parity at work.
Companies with more women in senior leadership perform better by virtually every financial measure, and women employees
...7) Gender intelligence: breakthrough strategies for increasing diversity and improving your bottom line
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Language
English
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Description
World-renowned experts on gender intelligence Barbara Annis and Keith Merron suggest it's time to move beyond arguments based on politics and fairness, building an economic business case for gender diversity in the workplace. Despite forty years of laws, quotas, diversity training, and legal expenses aimed toward equalizing pay, opportunities, and working conditions between the sexes, the glass ceiling remains firmly intact. For too long, companies...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Based on in-depth research and personal experiences, Lean Out is inspired by the journey of Marissa Orr, a single mom of three trying to succeed in her fifteen-year career at the worlds top tech giants. In an eye-opening account, Orr exposes the systemic dysfunction at the heart of todays most powerful corporations and how their pursuit to close the gender gap has come at the expense of female well-being"-- Publisher's description.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When Anne-Marie Slaughter's Atlantic article, "Why Women Still Can't Have it All" first appeared, it immediately went viral, sparking a firestorm of debate across the country. Within four days, it had become the most-read article in the history of the magazine. In the following months, Slaughter became a leading voice in the nationwide discussion on work-life balance and on women's changing role in the workplace. Now, Slaughter is here with her eagerly...
Author
Publisher
Conecta
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
"Part manual, part womanifesto, Feminist Fight Club is a hilarious yet incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work, providing real-life career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of professional women"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
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Description
In this provocative book, author Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic connects the dots and asks a powerful question: what if the reason for the lack of women at the top--and the presence of so many incompetent leaders who also happen to be men--is not that there are too many obstacles slowing women's advancement, but that there aren't enough career-testing obstacles for men? Marshalling decades of rigorous research on leadership to build his case, Chamorro-Premuzic...
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Language
English
Description
"Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men-era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out and wanted up. Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between 5'3" and 5'9", between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years of age at the time of hire....
13) Lean out
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Publisher
Distributed in the United States by Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016], ©2015
Language
English
Description
"Sheryl Sandberg's business advice book, Lean in, was heralded as a defining moment in attitudes to women in business. But for all its commercial success, it proposed a model of feminism that was individualistic and unthreatening to capital. In her powerful debut work Lean out, acclaimed journalist Dawn Foster unpicks how the purportedly feminist message of Sandberg's book neatly exempts patriarchy, capitalism and business from any responsibility...
Author
Publisher
Nash Format
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Ukrainian
Description
Cʹohodni zhinkam poctiyno dovodytʹcya pepebuvaty u ctpecovyx umovax, koly yixnya kap'yepa y cim'ya -- na piznyx shalʹkax tepeziv. Yakoyu maye buty cppavzhnya pivnictʹ? Yak vyznachyty ppiopytety y docyahty cppavedlyvocti na pynku ppatsi? SHCHo mayutʹ znaty kompaniyi dlya ucpishnoyi optymizatsiyi lyudcʹkyx pecupciv? Avtorka doclidzhuye, yak potpibno zminyty kulʹtupu tpudovyx vidnocyn, cotsialʹnu ta depzhavnu polityku, a takozh poyacnyuye, chomu...
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Language
English
Description
"When Lottie Palmer runs away the day before her wedding to join the Navy WAVES program, she not only leaves behind a fiance, but also the privileged lifestyle that she has known as the daughter of one of the most important manufacturers in Detroit's auto industry. Spurred by a desire to contribute meaningfully to the war effort, Lottie pours all of her focus and determination into becoming the best airplane mechanic in the division, working harder...
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