Authors: Carol A. Gallagher. Susan K. Golant.
Hardcover, 308 pages
Publisher: Viking Adult
Publication Date: 2000-05-04
Edition: 1st

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    A savvy, authoritative guide to climbing the corporate ladder based on lessons learned from 200 women executives who have made it to the top.

Today's corporate world is truly becoming a woman's world--almost. Women make up almost half of managerial and professional jobs, yet a mere 3 percent of top executives in America's Fortune 500 companies are women. For the first time in history, women are poised to take on the leadership roles in their companies, and we now know they don't have to play the "man's game" to do it. Going to the Top brings together the real-life success stories of 200 women at the top of America's Fortune 1000 companies to offer proven, doable and inspiring business advice for women who want to attain success at every step of the corporate ladder.

Based on in-depth interviews with executives at companies such as America Online, Chase, Pepsi Cola, and Intel, as well as her own experiences at Goldman Sachs, IBM, and American Management Systems, Carol Gallagher shatters the myths, highlights dozens of "power tips," and presents a new model of staying on the success track. Going to the Top is a groundbreaking book that will change the way women think about business and help them forge their own way to the top....

    Much has been written about the glass ceiling women encounter in business, but Carol Gallagher isn't having it. Of the 200 women executives she interviewed for Going to the Top, many had already found "windows" through the ceiling; many others, Gallagher says, will get through eventually. To her, the future looks bright for women in corporations: she notes they earn more than one third of all MBAs and more than 42 percent of law degrees. Women also hold close to half of all managerial and professional jobs. Sure, about 30 percent of those women leave corporate life, but the other 70 percent keep on going. It's for them Gallagher has written this guidebook.

What does it take to make it to the top in today's corporate world? Gallagher shows that the same qualities top male managers have--a desire to win, an ability to learn the complex unwritten rules of an organization, the emulation of role models--are absolutely essential for women, too. One large section of the book debunks female myths of achievement--that a single mentor will lift you to success; that endless networking is productive; that you can't afford to be nice and help others if you want to succeed. "If people trust you--if you can lead, build a team, and get the job done without alienating others--higher-ups will think of you first for promotions," Gallagher writes. The last section of the book presents strategies for juggling marriage, family, and career choices, and there's also a chapter for minority women. But it's chapter 12, "Fifteen Proven Strategies That Will Advance Your Career," that many will undoubtedly read first. Most guys should probably read this chapter, too, because ultimately, Going to the Top demonstrates that competence, leadership, and corporate political savvy are gender neutral. --Lou Schuler ...

Authors: Donna Partow.
Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Living Books
Publication Date: 1999-05-01
Edition: Revised

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    A practical, step-by-step guide for women who want a career but not a job outside the home....

Authors: Kelly Love Johnson.
Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: skirt!
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Edition: 1st

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    Humorous, practical, tell-it-like-it-is advice for women in the workplace.

Only seven of the Fortune 500 companies have a woman as CEO or President, and nearly 20 percent of them don't have any women at all in upper management. In the bestselling tradition of Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office and Who Moved My Cheese, Kelly Love Johnson lays out practical advice for career women who are starting out or who wonder why they're not moving ahead. This is the book every graduating senior, receptionist, and entry-level assistant will steal from her best friend. Johnson shows how speaking out, embracing change, and changing others' perceptions of working women can bring both personal and professional success. Chapters include: "The Alphas and the Betas: Personality Types," "A Feminist Says What?" and "Work Like a Girl." Using personal anecdotes, tried and true tactics, and a directory of resources and Web sites, Johnson shows readers how women can move ahead in the workplace just as well as men, as Ginger Rogers once said, "but backwards and in high heels."...

Authors: Charlene J. Allison. Sue-Ellen Jacobs. Mary A. Porter.
Hardcover, 203 pages
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication Date: 1990-02

Authors: Paula L. Aymer.
Hardcover, 184 pages
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Publication Date: 1997-07-30


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    A socio-historical and ethnographic account of pioneering Anglophone eastern Caribbean women who signed up to be migrant domestics in the Caribbean oil lands. This book provides an explanation of the migration culture of the Caribbean by injecting gender into traditional labor migration theories. It views labor migration from the female migrant women's perspective as a major entrepreneurial activity for those who refuse to be fazed by foreign nation-state boundaries. Aruba, the site of a giant U.S.-owned oil refinery, became a major participant in supplying Western Europe's and North America's insatiable oil needs during the decade of the 1940s and World War II. Therefore, the island is presented as the prototype of a 20th-century industrial worksite that attracted the female migrant labor flow. The book argues that this female migration created a long-term relationship between black female migrant workers from the eastern Caribbean and the "non-black" middle-class households on Aruba. In addition, wage-earning efforts of migrant labor in the oil enclave expanded and intensified female intra-regional petty trading activities and stimulated the interests of eastern Caribbean women in new labor sites outside of the Caribbean....

Authors: Linda Austin.
Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication Date: 2001-02-19


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    Over the course of the past three decades, the phrase "glass ceiling" has entered virtually every discussion on women in the professional workplace. The phrase has become entrenched in our vernacular as the barrier it refers to--lower salary levels for women than their male counterparts, a limit on their responsibilities, and fewer promotions to positions of real power--has proven to be a disappointingly prevalent aspect of corporate life. However, as Linda Austin convincingly demonstrates in What's Holding You Back?, it's nowhere near as career and life defining as the barrier women have unconsciously erected in their own minds.

Austin points out more than half of all undergraduate and postgraduate degrees are granted to women, but notes men are still nine times more likely to reach the highest levels of professional achievement. In other words, the intelligence is obviously there, and the initial drive to do well is evident, but something slows women down on their way to the top. Tripped up by psychological blocks that have been reinforced by culture and society, many women are unable to see themselves as great achievers, Austin argues. Instead of nurturing ambition and pursuing greatness, they shy away from stepping outside the boundary of ingrained behavior patterns--patterns that compel them to "cooperate but not initiate; produce but not invent; participate but not lead; reflect but not create." Austin presents these patterns of behavior, which she identifies as eight distinct, psychological issues united by the feminine drive to affiliate with others, as the countless daily choices women make that radically affect their professional success. These behaviors include examining and fully understanding one's motivation; learning where and how to invest one's energy and focus one's intelligence; employing one's competitive drive productively and efficiently; managing relationships in order to support one's accomplishments and deal effectively with adversaries; and, of course, recognizing how best to channel one's preferred style of dealing in the universal currency of power.

Austin's observations as a psychotherapist and medical professor are fascinating, as are the included findings of other renowned researchers and writers in the fields of psychology and psychiatry. She provides case studies of women in a wide range of occupations and offers explanations and encouragement in a tone that is never condescending, often eye opening, and always inspiring. A stimulating read. --S. Ketchum...

Authors: Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly.
Paperback, 228 pages
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Publication Date: 1984-06-30

Authors: Marilyn Ross.
Paperback, 382 pages
Publisher: Communication Creativity
Publication Date: 2000-08


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    Discover 307 awesome money-making strategies that work!

This revolutionary book has 20 informative, inspirational, irreverent chapters to help women business owners be more successful. Whether you are a female entrepreneur, a professional woman climbing the corporate ladder, or a woman (or man!) dreaming of starting your own company, you've got to have this book. Gutsy ideas for femme fatales, grande dames, and wonder women abound here. The material covers everything from generating free publicity (then truly profiting from it) to advertising on the cheap from forming strategic alliances to capitalizing on nontraditional sales channels. Women Business Owners Wage a Revolution

Sassy lasses are starting new companies at twice the rate of macho males. This isn't a fad. It isn't a trend. It's a revolution. According to statistics released by the Business Women's Network, it's estimated that by 2005, fully 50 percent of all American businesses will be owned by women, thus significantly increasing the growth rate of new enterprises. This is a gender bender of huge proportions and far-reaching ramifications.

"These entrepreneurial women will change the face of business," predicts Marilyn Ross, author of the new book Shameless Marketing for Brazen HussiesTM. "Woman is blessed with a nurturing nature. We're intuitive, good listeners, and well organized. Plus we think holistically, are as tenacious as pit bulls, and can use our sensuality as a powerful agent for change in the marketplace."

Ross contends that as stewards of their own talents and gifts, women are possibility thinkers. To fully succeed in today's competitive and complicated business environment they must be clever. Gutsy. Dedicated. Technologically savvy. Service oriented. "We can have just as much 'juice' as the guys and play hardball to the max," she says. "We just do it differently."

Shameless Marketing for Brazen HussiesTM: 307 Awesome Money-Making Strategies for Savvy Entrepreneurs has 16 informative, inspirational, irreverent chapters to help female entrepreneurs kick butt. The material covers everything from generating free publicity (then truly capitalizing on it) to advertising on the cheap from forming strategic alliances to unveiling nontraditional sales channels. Dozens of helpful Web sites put this guide on the cutting edge, and personal stories of successful female entrepreneurs encourage as they edify. The book shows women how to be risk takers. Rule breakers. Rainmakers.

As of 1999, there were 9.1 million women-owned businesses in the U.S. employing over 27.5 million people and generating $3.6 trillion in sales. Yet women traditionally make less in their ventures than do men. Ross is out to change that. "We must develop a marketing mind-set that capitalizes on our feminity; one that allows estrogen and entrepreneurship to mix and create excellence." This book points the way....

Authors:
Paperback, 272 pages
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Publication Date: 2005-07-25


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    Featuring many personal accounts, the twenty-four essays in this collection explore the challenges and possibilities confronting those, especially women, who combine parenting and academic work. It includes ideas for change at the individual, interpersonal, policy, and system levels....

Authors: Sharon Whiteley. Connie Duckworth. Kathy Elliott.
Hardcover, 288 pages
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication Date: 2003-08


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    For women, by women, a sassy soup-to-nuts guide to entrepreneurship in a male-dominated business culture.

Why is it that 95 percent of all investor financing for new businesses goes to men? Women certainly don't lack viable business ideas or the leadership skills to make them soar, but-as the authors, four highly successful entrepreneurs and investors, explain-female creativity and heartfelt commitment alone don't inspire seed-money decision makers. To persuade these mostly-male panels, a woman needs to present her idea in ways that are proven to "speak to" men. Alas, there is as yet a lack of mentors for would-be female entrepreneurs, no "old girls'" network in place to teach them these skills.

Stopping this gap with wit and hard-won wisdom, The Old Girls' Network divulges the secrets to start-up and funding success and connects women to the resources they'll need along the way. Written with you-can-do-it attitude, The Old Girls' Network includes inspirational and instructive women-in-business stories, self-assessment quizzes, and recommended strategies for every stage of the entrepreneurial process. A veritable start-up Bible, The Old Girls' Network comes complete with a "tool kit" of sample forms, documents, letters, and templates for necessary agreements, ensuring that the next generation of female entrepreneurs will be admitted to the proverbial locker room of business success....