Suppressed, Forced Out and Fired
Subtitle: How Successful Women Lose Their Jobs
Publisher: Quorum Books; Quorum
Published: June 30, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781567203561
Subjects: Labour economics; Sex discrimination; Women's Studies - General; Labor; Case studies; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Women; Business/Economics; Sex discrimination in employme; Organizational Behavior; Human Resources & Personnel Management; Labor & Employment; Business & Economics / Human Resources & Personnel Management; Employment; Sex Discrimination In Employment
First sentence: Even in an age of equal opportunity legislation and workplace initiatives to make work more flexible and agreeable to women, women still occupy the lower rungs of the corporate ladder.
Description: "Reeves surveys the structural obstacles to women's advancement and argues that successful women executives threaten their male counterparts and patriarchal culture, who respond by punishing them. Unlike other studies on the topic, Reeves explains the mechanisms by which gender discrimination operates - the dynamics of discrimination and the processes by which women in business are marginalized, subordinated, and excluded.

Her book combines theory with first-person, case study accounts of 10 women who were suppressed, then fired. The result is a compelling argument that, despite claims to the contrary, the glass ceiling still exists. Patriarchy has simply devised subtle new ways to circumvent the legal remedies meant to crack through it."--BOOK JACKET.