The last male bastion gender and the CEO suite in America's public companies /
"Not until 1997 did a female become chief executive officer of a Fortune 500 corporation. Women's progress since that time has been in fits and starts, exceedingly slow. After examining in detail the educations, career progressions, pronouncements and observations, as well as family lives,...
| Main Author: | Branson, Douglas M. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Routledge,
2010.
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| Physical Description: |
xvi, 263 pages ; 23 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Portraits of women CEOs
- The fall of Jill Barad at Mattel toy
- Carleton Fiorina at Hewlett-Packard
- A CEO success - Andrea Jung at Avon products
- Plowhorse - Marion Sandler at Golden West Financial
- Anne Mulcahy at Xerox and Patricia Russo at Alcatel-Lucent - fix it CEOs
- Go where they aren't
- Two additional CEO portraits
- Five who leave few footprints
- CEO additions of 2008-09
- Why there aren't more
- Why women?
- How we choose CEOs
- Glass ceilings, floors, walls, and cliffs
- Work-life issues and the price of motherhood
- In a different register
- Legacies of tokenism: retreats into stereotypes
- How to get there
- Narcissists, malignant narcissists, and productive narcissists
- Good-to-great companies and plowhorse CEOs
- The plowhorse versus the showhorse
- Education, mentoring, and networking
- Lessons learned
- Evolving a new paradigm for a new century.