The Last Male Bastion

Author : Douglas M. Branson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135234379

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The Last Male Bastion by Douglas M. Branson Pdf

Not until 1997 did a female become chief executive officer of a Fortune 500 corporation (Jill Barad, at Mattel Toy Co. Women’s progress since that time has been in fits and starts, exceedingly slow. The number of women CEOs reached 4 in 1999 only to slide back to 2 in 2001. Meanwhile, while not reaching anything approaching parity, women made significant strides in politics (as senators, cabinet secretaries and governors), in not-for-profit spheres (as CEOs of health care and hospital organizations or of United Way chapters, with budgets of billions of dollars), and at colleges and universities (23 % have female presidents or chancellors). Currently, 3%, or 15, of Fortune 500 CEOs are women. After examining in detail the educations, career progressions, pronouncements and observations, as well as family lives, of the 19 women who have risen to the top (sitting and former CEOs), this book asks, and attempts to answer, two questions: Why haven’t more women reached the CEO suite?How might women in business better position themselves to ascend to the pinnacle?

Author : Douglas M. Branson
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780814791059

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No Seat at the Table by Douglas M. Branson Pdf

Women are completing MBA and Law degrees in record high numbers, but their struggle to attain director positions in corporate America continues. Although explanations for this disconnect abound, neither career counselors nor scholars have paid enough attention to the role that corporate governance plays in maintaining the gender gap in America's executive quarters. Mining corporate governance models applied at Fortune 500 companies, hundreds of Title VII discrimination cases, and proxy statements, Douglas M. Branson suggests that women have been ill-advised by experts, who tend to teach females how to act like their male, executive counterparts. Instead, women who aspire to the boardroom should focus on the decision-making processes nominating committees—usually dominated by white men—employ when voting on membership. Filled with real-life cases, No Seat at the Table opens the closed doors of the boardroom and reveals the dynamics of the corporate governance process and the double standards that often characterize it. Based on empirical evidence, Branson concludes that women have to follow different paths than men in order to gain CEO status, and as such, encourages women to make flexible, conscious, and often frequent shifts in their professional behaviors and work ethics as they climb the corporate ladder.

Author : Annie Canel,Ruth Oldenziel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135286811

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Crossing Boundaries, Building Bridges by Annie Canel,Ruth Oldenziel Pdf

Women engineers have been in the public limelight for decades, yet we have surprisingly little historically grounded understanding of women in this field. This book considers the mechanisms of exclusion and inclusion of them.

Author : David Kirk,Doune Macdonald,Mary O′Sullivan
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781446206997

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Handbook of Physical Education by David Kirk,Doune Macdonald,Mary O′Sullivan Pdf

`This is simply the physical education book of its time. The editors must be congratulated on bringing together so many quality authors from so many different parts of the world. As a handbook, it represents how far the study of physical education has moved forward in recent times. What we have is a clear portrayal of physical education at the start of the 21st century′ - Mike Jess, University of Edinburgh `This Handbook is a "must read" for all physical educators who are serious about understanding their subject and developing their practices. The list of authors involved reads like a "who′s who"′ of physical education at a global level - the editors are to be commended on bringing together such collective expertise - this is a key strength of the book. The Handbook successfully expresses a view of knowledge about physical education pedagogy which embraces different research traditions and emerging areas of interest across the global scholarly community′ - Jo Harris, Loughborough University `This comprehensive and eclectic exploration into the field of physical education draws on the vast expertise of its renowned international contributors with astounding results. The Handbook of Physical Education serves to firmly reinstate physical education to its position as the core discipline of sport and exercise science. The Handbook is destined to become an indispensable academic resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of physical education for years to come′ - Pilvikki Heikinaro-Johansson, University of Jyväskylä What is the current condition of the field of physical education? How has it adapted to the rise of kinesiology, sport and exercise science and human movement studies over the last thirty years? This Handbook provides an authoritative critical overview of the field and identifies future challenges and directions. The Handbook is divided in to six parts: - Perspectives and Paradigms in Physical Education Pedagogy Research; - Cross-disciplinary Contributions to Research on Physical Education; - Learners and Learning in Physical Education; - Teachers, Teaching and Teacher Education in Physical Education; - Physical Education Curriculum; - Difference and Diversity in Physical Education. This benchmark work is essential reading for educators and students in the field of physical education.

Author : Ulrike Schultz,Gisela Shaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781782251101

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Gender and Judging by Ulrike Schultz,Gisela Shaw Pdf

Does gender make a difference to the way the judiciary works and should work? Or is gender-blindness a built-in prerequisite of judicial objectivity? If gender does make a difference, how might this be defined? These are the key questions posed in this collection of essays, by some 30 authors from the following countries; Argentina, Cambodia, Canada, England, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Kenya, the Netherlands, the Philippines, South Africa, Switzerland, Syria and the United States. The contributions draw on various theoretical approaches, including gender, feminist and sociological theories. The book's pressing topicality is underlined by the fact that well into the modern era male opposition to women's admission to, and progress within, the judicial profession has been largely based on the argument that their very gender programmes women to show empathy, partiality and gendered prejudice - in short essential qualities running directly counter to the need for judicial objectivity. It took until the last century for women to begin to break down such seemingly insurmountable barriers. And even now, there are a number of countries where even this first step is still waiting to happen. In all of them, there remains a more or less pronounced glass ceiling to women's judicial careers.

Author : Susan Vinnicombe,Ronald J Burke,Stacy Blake-Beard,Lynda L Moore
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857938961

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Handbook of Research on Promoting Womenês Careers by Susan Vinnicombe,Ronald J Burke,Stacy Blake-Beard,Lynda L Moore Pdf

In a changing world where women have dominated as graduates from universities in the West, recent research has shown that the same trend is also strikingly evident in the newly emerging markets. Tapping into this female talent pool is extremely importa

Author : Karin Pendle
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253338198

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Women & Music by Karin Pendle Pdf

Women & Music now features even more women composers, performers, and patrons, even more musical contexts, and an expanded view of women in music outside Europe and North America. A popular university textbook, Women & Music is enlightening for scholars, a good source of programming ideas for performers, and a pleasure for other music lovers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Aeronautics, Military
ISBN : MINN:30000002772774

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United States Army Aviation Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Prof. Paola Paoloni,Prof. Mauro Paoloni,Prof. Simona Arduini
Publisher : Academic Conferences and publishing limited
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781912764167

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ICGR 2019 2nd International Conference on Gender Research by Prof. Paola Paoloni,Prof. Mauro Paoloni,Prof. Simona Arduini Pdf

Author : Susan Mitchell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0684028816

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Be Bold ! by Susan Mitchell Pdf

Using Susan's own experiences and those of the many self-determining people she has met and interviewed over the years, she eloquently explores what happens when people receive due acknowledgment - and what happens when they don't.Now, more than ever, in this post-September 11 world, we have a clear choice. Do we move forwards or backwards? Do we dare to have a bold vision of how we would like the world to be or a predictable plan for retribution? As voters we need to ask ourselves, who has the boldest vision for our future? Is it a bold vision of light and moving forward or is it a vision of darkness and destruction and moving back to where we were before September 11, 2001?

Author : Nicole Detraz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745663050

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International Security and Gender by Nicole Detraz Pdf

What does it mean to be secure? In the global news, we hear stories daily about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, about domestic-level conflicts around the world, about the challenges of cybersecurity and social security. This broad list highlights the fact that security is an idea with multiple meanings, but do we all experience security issues in the same way? In this book, Nicole Detraz explores the broad terrain of security studies through a gender lens. Assumptions about masculinity and femininity play important roles in how we understand and react to security threats. By examining issues of militarization, peacekeeping, terrorism, human security, and environmental security, the book considers how the gender-security nexus pushes us to ask different questions and broaden our sphere of analysis. Including gender in our analysis of security challenges the primacy of some traditional security concepts and shifts the focus to be more inclusive. Without a full understanding of the vulnerabilities and threats associated with security, we may miss opportunities to address pressing global problems. Our society often expects men and women to play different roles, and this is no less true in the realm of security. This book demonstrates that security debates exhibit gendered understandings of key concepts, and whilst these gendered assumptions may benefit specific people, they are often detrimental to others, particularly in the key realm of policy-making.

Author : Varoozh Sahakian
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781477155202

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Neuroeconomics: the Odyssey by Varoozh Sahakian Pdf

Armenian origin neuroeconomist, Varoozh Sahakian, holds D.B.A., Ph.D degrees in Economics & a Ph.D in Sociology. His disappointment with thetraditional neoclassical economic theory top-down"macho-biased" approach to homo-economicus, alongwith his belief that homo-sapines choicebehavior & decision-making is limited mainly by his/her biology, or in other words, economics actually is apart of biology science, motivated him to gather deepknowledge about human bilology, brain & nervoussystem, gender differences, genetic and hormonal &chemical functions. The "Female brain unearths the neoclassicaleconomic theory biases/ anomalies, " book is the first oftwo books the author has written about this newborn, yet, burgeoning field of "Neuro-economics, " a highlypromising human science approach to understandingthe neurobiological bases of human choice behaviorand decision-making processes. The author presents a very promising andblossoming scientific field, which portrays a moreaccurate and real & candid picture of human naturethan neoclassical reductionist economic theory.In many aspects, neuroeconomics approach is apositive, constructive one, helping to explain thehuman capacity for kindness and cooperation andthe centrality of fairness to social emotions, morality &norms (by-passed by many Walrasian and neoclassicaladvocates). The book, after all, introduces an economicagent who is not necessarily acquisitive automationconditioned always to narrow self-interest, likeneoclassical economic theory's unisex (macho)or unsex, but can be a female &male, young & olddecision maker. In other words, it introduces a morereal, "whole human:" A 'Homo-Neuro-Economicus.'The most outstanding initiative of the bookis the introduction of a feminist economic theory, its critical approach to the neoclassical economictheory, supported interestingly not only by sociocultural/historical insights but by neuro-biological, psychological, gender, chemical & hormonal evidence, too. The author envisions, that this challengingdiscipline is likely, once for all, to realize Adam Smith & David Hume's dream by providing;"A unified theory of human choice behaviorand decision-making in the forthcoming future."

Author : Allan Peterkin,Alan Bleakley
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-23
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781351642804

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Staying Human During the Foundation Programme and Beyond by Allan Peterkin,Alan Bleakley Pdf

The ultimate enrichment and survival guide for Foundation Programme doctors, Staying Human During the Foundation Programme and Beyond provides time-tested advice and the latest information on every aspect of a junior doctor's life – from clinical transitions, to coping with stress, enhancing self-care and protecting personal and professional relationships. Already acknowledged in its original Canadian edition as an invaluable resource by thousands of doctors working across North America, this UK adaptation – with a host of new material and features – offers evidence-based practical advice to junior doctors on how to cope with a wide-range of challenges including working in teams, sleep deprivation, time pressures and ethical issues, while at the same time maintaining a high level of patient care and safety. The authors also address subjects such as sexuality, equality and social justice.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1224 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Legislative hearings
ISBN : UCAL:B3608353

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Select Committee on Small Business by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small Business Pdf

Author : Helen Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317889311

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Women in British Public Life, 1914 - 50 by Helen Jones Pdf

An examination of the ways in which women challenged the British educational, employment and welfare systems after the franchise. Helen Jones explores how women adapted their strategies to confront the system from within, and what constraints were imposed on them. She also examines the active role that British women played in Continental Europe, and an important comparative chapter looks at the experience of women in France, Germany, Italy, Australia and the USA.