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The Last Male Bastion: Gender and the CEO Suite in America’s Public Companies

Autor Douglas M. Branson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 dec 2009
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?
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415872959
ISBN-10: 0415872952
Pagini: 306
Ilustrații: 4 b/w images
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.69 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Douglas M.  Branson received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his J.D. from Northwestern University. He earned an LL.M. from the University of Virginia, specializing in corporate law and securities regulation. Before joining the faculty at Pittsburgh, Professor Branson taught at Seattle University. He has been a visiting professor at a number of schools, including the University of Alabama as Charles Tweedy Distinguished Visiting Professor, the University of Hong Kong as Paul Hastings Distinguished Visiting Professor, the University of Washington (Seattle) as Condon-Faulknor Distinguished Professor, Cornell University, Arizona State University, Washington University (St. Louis), and universities in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Belgium, Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, South Africa, and England. He holds a permanent faculty appointment as Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, in its Masters of Law Program.

Recenzii

"Meticulously researched, thoroughly documented, and highly readable, this volume is a valuable contribution to the literature. Highly recommended." – M.S. Myers, Carnegie Mellon University, CHOICE (August 2010)

Cuprins

Table of Contents Preface Part I: PORTRAITS OF WOMEN CEOS. Chapter 1. The Fall of Jill Barad at Mattel Toy. Chapter 2. Carleton Fiorina at Hewlett-Packard. Chapter 3. A CEO Success - Andrea Jung at Avon Products. Chapter 4. Plowhorse - Marion Sandler at Golden West Financial. Chapter 5. Ann Mulcahy at Xerox and Patricia Russo at Alcatel-Lucent - Fix It CEOs. Chapter 6. Go Where They Aren’t - Susan Ivey, Paula Reynolds, and Patricia Woertz. Chapter 7. Two Additional CEO Portraits: Barbara Barnes and Meg Whitman. Chapter 8. Five Who Leave Few Footsteps. Chapter 9. CEO Additions of 2008- 09 . Part II: WHY THERE AREN’T MORE. Chapter 10. Why Women? Chapter 11. How We Choose CEOs. Chapter 12. Glass Ceilings, Floors, Walls and Cliffs. Chapter 13. Work/Life Issues and the Price of Motherhood. Chapter 14. In a Different Register. Chapter 15. Legacies of Tokenism: Retreats into Stereotypes. Part III: HOW TO GET THERE. Chapter 16. Narcissists, Malignant Narcissists, and Productive Narcissists. Chapter 17. Good to Great Companies and Plowhorse CEOs. Chapter 18. The Plowhorse Versus the Showhorse. Chapter 19. Education, Mentoring, and Networking. Chapter 20. Lessons Learned. Chapter 21. Conclusion: Evolving a New Paradigm for a New Century.

Descriere

The Last Male Bastion is the first systematic approach to the subject why, proportionately, so few women occupy seats of power in today's public companies. The book examines (1) a well-defined group (not random); (2) defined by the single most important criteria, success; (3) with success defined in one and only one way, as promotion to CEO of a Fortune 500 corporation. The book examines carefully the careers and experiences of 19 women who actually have "made it," female CEOs who have been (beyond peradventure) successful.