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Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change

par Barbara Kellerman (Directeur de publication), Deborah L. Rhode (Directeur de publication)

Autres auteurs: Laura M. Bacon (Contributeur), Rosalind Chait Barnett (Contributeur), Linda L. Carli (Contributeur), Drude Dahlerup (Contributeur), Alice H. Eagly (Contributeur)20 plus, Robin Ely (Contributeur), Richard L. Fox (Contributeur), Katherine Giscombe (Contributeur), Ronald A. Heifetz (Contributeur), Silvia Ann Hewlett (Contributeur), Anita F. Hill (Contributeur), Evangelina Holvino (Contributeur), Barbara Kellerman (Contributeur), Nannerl O. Keohane (Contributeur), Ruth B. Mandel (Contributeur), Debra Meyerson (Contributeur), Pippa Norris (Contributeur), Sandra Day O'Connor (Avant-propos), Todd L. Pittinsky (Contributeur), Karen L. Proudford (Contributeur), Deborah L. Rhode (Contributeur), Laura Morgan Roberts (Contributeur), Brian Welle (Contributeur), Laura Wernick (Contributeur), Marie C. Wilson (Contributeur)

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Women and Leadership brings together in one comprehensive volume preeminent scholars from a range of disciplines to address the challenges involving women and leadership. These experts explore when and how women exercise power and what stands in their way. This groundbreaking volume offers readers an informed analysis of the state of women and leadership and offers the most informed and current thinking on The perils of stereotypes The importance of leadership style Gender differences in the decision to seek leadership roles Lessons from women leaders "Opt out" patterns and the need for flexible career paths Global inequalities and initiatives Strategies that get women to the top Women and Leadership is indispensable for understanding recent progress toward equal opportunity and the challenges that remain.… (plus d'informations)
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The state of play is a reiteration of what we already know: women are still being passed over or withheld from leadership positions in business. This is for well-known and understood reasons. Reasons well known and understood by anyone of middle-income or below who are moderately educated (this leaves out the current Republican nominee for President, but more on that later). Women's professional careers suffer with marriage (men's do not) because women remain responsible for a majority of child care and domestic duties. Women also tend to take off time from their careers to have children (for various lengths of time) and find that their employer or profession is no longer interested in women's capabilities, only in their possibly divided attention from the job towards her family (an interest that men do not face) or their possible lack (atrophy) of qualifications. Furthermore, women are stereotyped as not being able to lead, or are considered more relationally motivated than decision motivated (and heaven help her if she is determined and motivated...she will be considered a bitch). There really is nothing new in this 2007 volume that isn't already known or stated by other researchers. Any stereotype, or any concerns about a woman's relationship/procreative status or leadership abilities, are simply bogus! Now, go tell that to the men occupying the corner office on Wall Street and see how fast you are met with laughter and escorted out the front doors. The practices are unfair and detrimental to women, and every effort should be taken to contradict and countermand these practices in order to create a level field of opportunity for everyone (did I mention those men in the corner offices are white?).

My concern is that all the women and leadership literature, all giving very valid points, continue to measure and define professional success in ideas established by the patriarchal business establishment long ago. Every researcher wants to know why there are not more women CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. Excuse me, but what if I do not want to be a CEO? I have every intention of being extremely successful in my career, but the opportunity to schmooze with Donald Trump is not my idea of success. My professional life has very little to do (directly) with Wall Street. By measuring women's success on terms established by men, advocating, dispelling, or flagrantly calling bullshit on gendered nonsense by the likes Romney & Co., Inc., renders the point moot. Get a different measurement, please. Time to take a poststructuralist feminist stand and trouble notions of gender and success, redefining them in a manner which have only a gentle nod toward the Wall Street corner office.

If you're wondering why I feel this reconceptualization of success is necessary, it's because I am tired of Wall Street cronies. They have bankrupted our economy twice (with numerous recessions in-between) through greedy practices, all the while holding a belief that they know what is best for everyone. And I am not talking just about best for everyone's retirement portfolio. I mean in all situations, all the time, for everyone. Why? Because Wall Street cronies are largely arrogant. With that, I now return to the subject of the Republican nominee for President of the United States, Mitt Romney.

I have listened to Mitt speak/debate throughout the party nomination process, and now must listen to him speak and debate against President Obama until November. (Oh, goodie!!! I hope I have enough wine to make it through the experience. When I awake post-election, I hope I will be able to chalk the feeling up to a hangover and not the realization that my country will be run by a bullying, bigoted frat boy.) My conclusion of Mr. Romney is that he just does not get it. And, what is worse, he will never get it. And the reason he will never get it is because Wall Street culture does not get it and has no desire to change the fact that it does not get it.

Let me see if I can be more clear....

Romney has no relation to reality by virtue of the Wall Street business culture upon which he boasts, and upon which he has built is economic campaign. Take a looksie at corporate culture:

- Lack of women in decision-making and leadership positions
- Lack of cultural, ethnic, gender, sexual diversity in the top offices giving corporate culture a distorted and discriminatory view of the structure of society as a whole
- Inflated CEO salaries compared to lower-level posts (lower-level posts most likely to be occupied by women and minorities)
- Corporate tendency to only concentrate on the bottom line meaning that they only want to know how women and minorities will be profitable to them...period
- Wall Street is an Old Boys Network that sees humor, camaraderie, and strength in a way perceived as crude, aggressive, competitive, and intimidating to women and minorities
- Corporate culture is likely to operate on stereotypes creating an "Us versus Them" dichotomy where the "other" is perceived as a distrusted outsider not worth their time, an operational attitude buoyed through flagrant displays of tokenism to convince onlookers, whistleblowers, judges, and legislatures how "fair" they are ("I have a good relationship with the blacks." - Donald Trump, 2011; "Our blacks are better than their blacks." - Ann Coulter, 2011)
- Corporate culture's ultimate aim is to squash the competition...bankrupt them, or buy and dispose of them while reaping the profits (only to be shared amongst their friends)

All of these points are Wall Street justifications for withholding opportunities for advancement. Needless to say, I am not impressed by Romney's record at Bain Capital. It gives me the creeps. Corporate culture is not a formula for leading my democratic republic which boasts a constitution that guarantees everyone the opportunity to pursue happiness.

Excuse me, I need a glass of wine. ( )
  Christina_E_Mitchell | Sep 9, 2017 |
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Kellerman, BarbaraDirecteur de publicationauteur principaltoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Rhode, Deborah L.Directeur de publicationauteur principaltoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Bacon, Laura M.Contributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Barnett, Rosalind ChaitContributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Carli, Linda L.Contributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Dahlerup, DrudeContributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Eagly, Alice H.Contributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Ely, RobinContributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Fox, Richard L.Contributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Giscombe, KatherineContributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Heifetz, Ronald A.Contributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Hewlett, Silvia AnnContributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Hill, Anita F.Contributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Holvino, EvangelinaContributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Kellerman, BarbaraContributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Keohane, Nannerl O.Contributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Mandel, Ruth B.Contributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Meyerson, DebraContributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Norris, PippaContributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
O'Connor, Sandra DayAvant-proposauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Pittinsky, Todd L.Contributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Proudford, Karen L.Contributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Rhode, Deborah L.Contributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Roberts, Laura MorganContributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
Welle, BrianContributeurauteur secondairetoutes les éditionsconfirmé
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Women and Leadership brings together in one comprehensive volume preeminent scholars from a range of disciplines to address the challenges involving women and leadership. These experts explore when and how women exercise power and what stands in their way. This groundbreaking volume offers readers an informed analysis of the state of women and leadership and offers the most informed and current thinking on The perils of stereotypes The importance of leadership style Gender differences in the decision to seek leadership roles Lessons from women leaders "Opt out" patterns and the need for flexible career paths Global inequalities and initiatives Strategies that get women to the top Women and Leadership is indispensable for understanding recent progress toward equal opportunity and the challenges that remain.

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