Women at the Top - Challenges, Choices and Change

The authentic voices of sixty successful women, identify the challenges that they have faced in their careers and the ways in which they have overcome them. These include a male work culture and reconciling the demands of work and family. The 'glass ceiling' may have moved up a little, but it is still there.

List of contents

The Context: Women Leading at Work The Challenges Success Factors Meeting the Challenges through Networking Women and Choices Individual Voices on Challenge, Choice and Change Change for Women at Work

About the author

MARIANNE COLEMAN Emeritus Reader in Education at the Institute of Education, University of London, UK, and was previously at the University of Leicester, UK. She has researched widely in the UK and internationally and has particular interest in gender and diversity issues in relation to leadership

Summary

The authentic voices of sixty successful women, identify the challenges that they have faced in their careers and the ways in which they have overcome them. These include a male work culture and reconciling the demands of work and family. The 'glass ceiling' may have moved up a little, but it is still there.

Product details

• Authors: M. Coleman, Marianne Coleman
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349321803
• ISBN: 978-1-349-32180-3
• No. of pages: 221
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 12 mm x 216 mm
• Weight: 293 g
• Illustrations: VI, 221 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Management, B, Gender Studies, Sociology, Leadership, Human Resource Management, Business Strategy/Leadership, Behavioral Economics, Behavioural economics, Management & management techniques, Gender studies, gender groups, Personnel & human resources management, Personnel Management, Experimental Economics, Management science, Business Strategy and Leadership, Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Palgrave Business & Management Collection