Women Who Succeed [electronic resource] : Strangers in Paradise /
Durbin, Susan.author.
The number of women in senior management remains stubbornly low. Women Who Succeed examines the real life experiences of forty-six senior women who have 'made it' into senior management. It considers the strategies that these women adopted, the support they received and the relationships they formed in building their careers.
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Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Why a book about senior women?; Methods; Structure of the book; 2 Strangers in Paradise? Women, Work and Management; Introduction; What is 'gender equality'?; Exclusion, segregation and 'choice': Women's relationship with paid work; Women managers: Common ground or different experiences?; How many women does it take?; Achieving critical mass: How many is enough?; The business case for increasing women's representation in management; Targets or quotas? How best to move the gender equality agenda forward?; Chapter summary
3 Through the Glass Ceiling and Beyond: Getting In/Getting OnIntroduction; Context; Interviewee profile; Working hours and part-time working; Careers: Planned or serendipitous?; Career satisfaction; Challenges; Career progression strategies; Chapter summary; 4 Who Supports Senior Women? The Role of Mentors; Introduction; Mentoring; Formal mentoring schemes; Moving in/moving up: The importance of past mentors to senior women's careers; Current mentoring for women in the private sector; Current mentoring for women in the public sector; The overall benefits of mentoring; Chapter summary
5 Who Inspires Senior Women? Role ModelsIntroduction; What is a role model?; Role models identified by women in the private sector; Role models identified by women in the public sector; Comparing role models across the private and public sectors; Senior women as role models; Chapter summary; 6 Who Connects with Senior Women? Networking; Introduction; What is networking?; Why is networking important for senior women?; Homophilous and heterophilous networking: 'One of the boys' or 'one of the girls'?; Homophilous women's networks; Homophilous 'old boys' networks'; Senior women and networking
Women's networking in the private sectorWomen's networking in the public sector; The relationship between networking and career progression; Are senior women engaging with and participating in women's networks?; Women's experiences of old boys' networks; Chapter summary; 7 Conclusions and Future Directions; The future; Research implications and recommendations for the future; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The number of women in senior management remains stubbornly low. Women Who Succeed examines the real life experiences of forty-six senior women who have 'made it' into senior management. It considers the strategies that these women adopted, the support they received and the relationships they formed in building their careers.
Leadership.
Management.
Organization.
Planning.
Personnel management.
Behavioral economics.
Business ethics.
Business Strategy/Leadership.
Management.
Organization.
Human Resource Management.
Behavioral/Experimental Economics.
Business Ethics.