What works for women at work
Subtitle: four patterns working women need to know
By: Joan C. Williams and Rachel Dempsey ; foreword by Anne-Marie Slaughter
Contributors: Dempsey, Rachel, author
Edition: Updated edition.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9781479814312
Subjects: Sex role in the work environment; Employment; Psychology; Women
Description: "Based on interviews with 127 successful working women, over half of them women of color, What Works for Women at Work presents a toolkit for getting ahead in today's workplace. Distilling over 35 years of research, Williams and Dempsey offer four crisp patterns that affect working women: Prove-It-Again!, the Tightrope, the Maternal Wall, and the Tug of War. Each represents different challenges and requires different strategies--which is why women need to be savvier than men to survive and thrive in high-powered careers." --Publisher information.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-347) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: It's not (always) your fault; title: Prove-It-Again!; title: Spotting prove-it-again! patterns; title: Prove-it-again! action plan; title: The Tightrope. Spotting tightrope patterns; title: Tightrope action plan: neither a bitch...; title: Tightrope action plan: ...nor a bimbo; title: The Maternal Wall. Spotting maternal wall patterns; title: Maternal wall action plan; title: The Tug of war. Spotting tug of war patterns; title: Tug of war action plan; title: Double Jeopardy?. The experience of gender bias differs by race; title: Leave or Stay?. Leave or stay? Reading the tea leaves; title: Leave or stay? Don't dismay; title: Lessons. The science of savvy in 20 lessons; title: Conclusion: Jump-starting the stalled gender revolution.