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Scaling the Ivory Tower: Stories from Women in Business School Faculties » Read Now
by Dianne Cyr, Blaize Horner Reich, Denise M. Rousseau. 202 pgs.

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The detailed life stories of nine women academics in North American business faculties--three in their early careers, three at tenure time, and three who are recognized leaders in their field. Their stories are interpreted as a set of choices, and the insights and strategies are developed for the reader.
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Managing Lives: Corporate Women and Social Change » Read Now
by Sue Freeman, Joan Mendelson. 262 pgs.

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...not usually prepared in business management. Hence, women developed their skills...the clerical ranks for women in business, and worked their way...Marie saw opportunity...
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Now Hiring: The Feminization of Work in the United States, 1900-1995 » Read Now
by Julia Kirk Blackwelder. 312 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...men worked in construction...established small businesses. Custom discouraged Italian women from working...for young women. The Young...Association and business womens...
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Against All Odds: The Entrepreneurship of Women, in Journal of Small Business Management » Read Now
by Lois A. Stevenson. 7 pgs.

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...approximately 365,000 self-employed women in non-farm businesses in 1984. Based on 1972...In Canada, a study of women retail business owners in Southern Ontario...
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America's Competitive Secret: Women Managers » Read Now
by Judy B. Rosener. 234 pgs.

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The United States has a large number of well educated, experienced professional women ready, willing and able to move into the boardrooms and executive suites of corporate America. Together they represent a great, untapped economic resource, a resource no other country in the world can claim. This...
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The United States has a large number of well educated, experienced professional women ready, willing and able to move into the boardrooms and executive suites of corporate America. Together they represent a great, untapped economic resource, a resource no other country in the world can claim. This is America's competitive secret, argues Judy B. Rosener in this refreshingly pragmatic new book for managers who want to improve their bottom line. A leading expert on women and men at work and a highly sought-after speaker, Rosener argues that not only are men and women different, so are male and female managers. Drawing on in-depth interviews with top-flight executives and middle managers and the latest research on working women and organizational change, she describes the unique contribution of female professionals. Her profiles of top women managers reveal that they cope well with ambiguity, are comfortable sharing power, and they tend to empower others-- leadership traits that Rosener contends lead to increased employee productivity, innovation, and profits. As businesses today struggle with corporate reorganization and an increasingly diverse workforce, America's Competive Secret offers compelling evidence that the changes that help organizatiions more fully utilize the talents of women are the same changes that will give them an important edge in today's fast-changing, service oriented, global workplace. Rosener explains why the so-called glass ceiling still prevents many competent women from reaching the upper echelons of management. She analyzes why women and men are perceived and evaluated differently at work, and provides new insight into the feelings of men who are asked to interact with women in new roles when there are few new rules. Rosener shows that removing the glass ceiling can no longer be viewed solely in terms of social equity--it is now an economic imperative. Too many American businesses have limited their economic strength by viewing the promotion of women employees only within the context of federally mandated affirmative action laws and policies. America's Competitive Secret redefines the issue for a new era, showing that America's most successful competitive strategy is one that most effectively utilizes all its human resources.
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Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Can Women Reach the Top of America's Largest Corporations? » Read Now
by Ann M. Morrison, Randall P. White, Ellen Van Velsor. 226 pgs.

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Women compose nearly half of today's workforce, are in more management positions than ever before, and have reached every level of the Fortune 500--except the most important ones. This book explodes long-held myths and provides practical advice on the first steps needed to effectively break the glass ceiling.
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The Cost of Being Female » Read Now
by Sue Headlee, Margery Elfin. 232 pgs.

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"The Cost of Being Female is 30 cents", say the authors of this new book on discrimination against women. They demonstrate their thesis by constructing an index that documents the costs of discrimination against women in five aspects of life: economic, political, social, education, and health. The...
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"The Cost of Being Female is 30 cents", say the authors of this new book on discrimination against women. They demonstrate their thesis by constructing an index that documents the costs of discrimination against women in five aspects of life: economic, political, social, education, and health. The index compares the costs for American women with those of women in Sweden, Norway, France, and China, and measures the costs for three time periods: 1990s, 1950s, and the 19th century. The authors interviewed over 70 women, providing a human approach to the statistics of earnings, occupations, political participation, marriage, divorce, childbearing, education, and women's health. The women's narratives are living testimony to the experiences of the costs of being female.
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Women's Work and Women's Lives: The Continuing Struggle Worldwide » Read Now
by Hilda Kahne, Janet Z. Giele. 326 pgs.

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...countries, which have the most favorable public policy in support of gender equality, report underrepresentation of women in top business and professional positions...
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Women-Owned Businesses » Read Now
by Oliver Hagan, Carol Rivchun, Donald Sexton. 234 pgs.

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The authors of this study bring into perspective the woman entrepreneur and some of the unique problems she faces as the owner and operator of her own business. The book follows the entrepreneurial process from concept development through expansion, growth, and transitions to an established...
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The authors of this study bring into perspective the woman entrepreneur and some of the unique problems she faces as the owner and operator of her own business. The book follows the entrepreneurial process from concept development through expansion, growth, and transitions to an established business. Among the topics covered are networking among woman entrepreneurs, business growth, financing, the role of trustees, and changing the direction of a business's operations. The appendix lists sources of advisory and financial assistance to the woman entrepreneur. The topics covered are the issues that any business faces, but the authors bring into perspective the woman entrepreneur and some of the unique problems she faces as the owner and operator of her business.
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Job Queues, Gender Queues: Explaining Women's Inroads into Male Occupations » Read Now
by Barbara F. Reskin, Patricia A. Roos. 388 pgs.

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...showed, in colonial...America women provided...competitors out of business. Professional...market work women actually...included taking in boarders...family-owned...
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Suppressed, Forced out and Fired: How Successful Women Lose Their Jobs » Read Now
by Martha E. Reeves. 250 pgs.

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So entrenched, long established, and powerful is the "patriarchy" within organizations that women have serious difficulty acquiring positions of real importance, even when it is in the organization's best interest to use their talents fully (and reward them equitably). Reeves surveys the structural...
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So entrenched, long established, and powerful is the "patriarchy" within organizations that women have serious difficulty acquiring positions of real importance, even when it is in the organization's best interest to use their talents fully (and reward them equitably). Reeves surveys the structural obstacles to women's advancement within organizations and explains the mechanisms by which gender discrimination operates. Her book combines theory with case study accounts of 10 women who were suppressed, then fired, and documents how that sort of termination process works. The result is a fresh, new look at a seemingly intractable problem, presented readably and objectively.
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Women and Wealth: A Study of the Economic Status of American Women » Read Now
by Mary Sydney Branch. 153 pgs.

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The Paradox of Change: American Women in the 20th Century » Read Now
by William H. Chafe. 247 pgs.

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When William Chafe's The American Woman was published in 1972, it was hailed as a breakthrough in the study of women in this century. Bella Abzug praised it as "a remarkable job of historical research," and Alice Kessler-Harris called it "an extraordinarily useful synthesis of material about...
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When William Chafe's The American Woman was published in 1972, it was hailed as a breakthrough in the study of women in this century. Bella Abzug praised it as "a remarkable job of historical research," and Alice Kessler-Harris called it "an extraordinarily useful synthesis of material about 20th-century women." But much has happened in the last two decades--both in terms of scholarship, and in the lives of American women. With The Paradox of Change, Chafe builds on his classic work, taking full account of the events and scholarship of the last fifteen years, as he extends his analysis into the 1990s with the rise of feminism and the New Right. Chafe conveys all the subtleties of women's paradoxical position in the United States today, showing how women have gradually entered more fully into economic and political life, but without attaining complete social equality or economic justice. Despite the gains achieved by feminist activists during the 1970s and 1980s, the tensions continued to abound between public and private roles, and the gap separating ideals of equal opportunity from the reality of economic discrimination widened. Women may have gained some new rights in the last two decades, but the feminization of poverty has also soared, with women constituting 70% of the adult poor. Moreover, a resurgence of conservatism, symbolized by the triumph of Phyllis Schlafly's anti-ERA coalition, has cast in doubt even some of the new rights of women, such as reproductive freedom. Chafe captures these complexities and contradictions with a lively combination of representative anecdotes and archival research, all backed up by statistical studies. As in The American Woman, Chafe once again examines "woman's place" throughout the 20th century, but now with a more nuanced and inclusive approach. There are insightful portraits of the continuities of women's political activism from the Progressive era through the New Deal; of the contradictory gains and losses of the World War II years; and of the various kinds of feminism that emerged out of the tumult of the 1960s. Not least, there are narratives of all the significant struggles in which women have engaged during these last ninety years--for child care, for abortion rights, and for a chance to have both a family and a career. The Paradox of Change is a wide-ranging history of 20th-century women, thoroughly researched and incisively argued. Anyone who wants to learn more about how women have shaped, and been shaped by, modern America will have to read this book.
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Women Business Owners in France: The Issue of Financing Discrimination, in Journal of Small Business Management » Read Now
by Muriel Orban. 8 pgs.

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...sphere of business and finance. Women in business often claim they are discriminated...environment, first reactions to women in business tend to involve skepticism...