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The last male bastion : gender and the CEO suite in America's public companies / Douglas M. Branson.

Title
The last male bastion : gender and the CEO suite in America's public companies / Douglas M. Branson.
Author
Branson, Douglas M.
Publication
New York : Routledge, 2010.

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Description
xvi, 263 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
"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, 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?"--BOOK JACKET.
Subject
  • Glass ceiling (Employment discrimination) > United States
  • Women chief executive officers > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Pt. I. Portraits of Women CEOs -- 1. The Fall of Jill Barad at Mattel Toy -- 2. Carleton Fiorina at Hewlett-Packard -- 3. A CEO Success - Andrea Jung at Avon Products -- 4. Plowhorse - Marion Sandler at Golden West Financial -- 5. Anne Mulcahy at Xerox and Patricia Russo at Alcatel-Lucent - Fix It CEOs -- 6. Go Where They Aren't -- 7. Two Additional CEO Portraits -- 8. Five Who Leave Few Footprints -- 9. CEO Additions of 2008-09 -- Pt. II. Why There Aren't More -- 10. Why Women? -- 11. How We Choose CEOs -- 12. Glass Ceilings, Floors, Walls, and Cliffs -- 13. Work-Life Issues and the Price of Motherhood -- 14. In a Different Register -- 15. Legacies of Tokenism: Retreats into Stereotypes -- Pt. III. How to Get There -- 16. Narcissists, Malignant Narcissists, and Productive Narcissists -- 17. Good-to-Great Companies and Plowhorse CEOs -- 18. The Plowhorse Versus the Showhorse -- 19. Education, Mentoring, and Networking -- 20. Lessons Learned -- 21. Conclusion: Evolving a New Paradigm for a New Century.
ISBN
  • 9780415872959 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0415872952 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780415872966 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0415872960 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780203865668 (e-book : alk. paper)
  • 0203865669 (e-book : alk. paper)
LCCN
2009024215
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries