Women and Leadership – The State of Play and Strategies for Change
The State of Play and Strategies for Change
Gebonden Engels 2007 9780787988333Samenvatting
Women and Leadership brings together in one comprehensive volume preeminent scholars from a range of disciplines to address the challenges involving women and leadership. These experts explore when and how women exercise power and what stands in their way. This groundbreaking volume offers readers an informed analysis of the state of women and leadership and offers the most informed and current thinking on
· The perils of stereotypes
· The importance of leadership style
· Gender differences in the decision to seek leadership roles
· Lessons from women leaders
· Opt out patterns and the need for flexible career paths
· Global inequalities and initiatives
· Strategies that get women to the top
Women and Leadership is indispensable for understanding recent progress toward equal opportunity and the challenges that remain.
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Inhoudsopgave
<p>Women and Leadership: The State of Play 1<br /> Deborah L. Rhode, Barbara Kellerman</p>
<p>PART ONE. GENDER DIFFERENCES AND GENDER STEREOTYPES<br /> <br /> 1. Crossing the Bridge: Reflections on Women and Leadership 65<br /> Nannerl O. Keohane</p>
<p>2. The Great Women Theory of Leadership? Perils of Positive Stereotypes and Precarious Pedestals 93<br /> Todd L. Pittinsky, Laura M. Bacon, Brian Welle</p>
<p>3. Overcoming Resistance to Women Leaders: The Importance of Leadership Style 127<br /> Linda L. Carli and Alice H. Eagly</p>
<p>4. Women, Leadership, and the Natural Order 149<br /> Rosalind Chait Barnett</p>
<p>5. What Difference Will Women Judges Make? Looking Once More at the Woman Question 175<br /> Anita F. Hill</p>
<p>PART TWO. LEADERSHIP IN CONTEXT: WOMEN IN POLITICS</p>
<p>6. Opening the Door: Women Leaders and Constitution Building in Iran and Afghanistan 197<br /> Pippa Norris</p>
<p>7. Will Gender Balance in Politics Come by Itself? 227<br /> Drude Dahlerup</p>
<p>8. The Future of Women s Political Leadership: Gender and the Decision to Run for Elective Office 251<br /> Richard L. Fox</p>
<p>9. It s Woman Time 271<br /> Marie C. Wilson</p>
<p>10. She s the Candidate! A Woman for President 283<br /> Ruth B. Mandel</p>
<p>PART THREE. LEADERSHIP REDEFINED: AUTHORITY, AUTHENTICITY, POWER<br /> <br /> 11. Leadership, Authority, and Women: A Man s Challenge 311<br /> Ronald A. Heifetz</p>
<p>12. Bringing Your Whole Self to Work: Lessons in Authentic Engagement from Women Leaders 329<br /> Laura Morgan Roberts<br /> <br /> 13. Women and Power: New Perspectives on Old Challenges 361<br /> Evangelina Holvino<br /> <br /> 14. Women in Corporate Leadership: Status and Prospects 383<br /> Katherine Giscombe</p>
<p>PART FOUR. REDEFINING THE PROBLEM, RECASTING THE SOLUTIONS</p>
<p>15. Off–Ramps and On–Ramps: Women s Nonlinear Career Paths 407<br /> Silvia Ann Hewlett</p>
<p>16. Isn t She Delightful? Creating Relationships That Get Women to the Top (and Keep Them There) 431<br /> Karen L. Proudford</p>
<p>17. Disrupting Gender, Revising Leadership 453<br /> Debra Meyerson, Robin Ely, Laura Wernick</p>
<p>Acknowledgments 475</p>
<p>Contributors 477</p>
<p>Index 489</p>
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