From Kate Eberle Walker, CEO of Presence Learning and former Goldman Sachs investment banker, The Good Boss offers simple strategies for managers across all industries to be better bosses for women em
Wise and Foolish Virgins: White Women at Work in the Feminized World of Primary School Teaching by Sally Campbell Galman asks the question, what does it mean for an entire profession to be numerically
It’s only because they like me. I was in the right place at the right time. I just work harder than the others. I don’t deserve this. It’s just a matter of time before I am found out. Someone must hav
This work for researchers, scholars, and policymakers overviews problems of disadvantaged Indian women and describes government programs and policies aimed at their social and political empowerment. T
In the 1790s, when Charlotte Smith and Helen Maria Williams were at the peak of their critical reputations, they were known to each other and often cited together approvingly. This book looks at how S
Sixteen of the world's great women writers speak about their work, their colleagues, and their lives.For More Than Forty Years, the acclaimed Paris Review interviews have been collected in the Writers
The Second Edition of this best selling book provides a comprehensive examination of the role that gender plays in work environments. This book differs from others by comparing women's and men's work
Women find romance and passion with three blue-collar hunks, all of whom have a creative approach to love, in this anthology of sensuous tales by Janelle Denison, Nina Bangs, and MaryJanice Davidson.
The authentic voices of sixty successful women, identify the challenges that they have faced in their careers and the ways in which they have overcome them.?These include a male work culture and recon
Using case studies of top-level women and research in the field, Women at the Top breaks new ground and offers new insight into how women can create dually-successful lives. explores the work histori
In the annals of Industrialization, the Soviet experience is unique in its whirlwind rapidity. Even more striking was the critical role of women: in no country of the world did women come to constitute such a significant part of the working class in so short a time. They composed a larger percentage of the working class, filled an unprecedented share of jobs in heavy industry, and served as the first targeted 'reserve' for Soviet labour policy and recruitment. As women undercut the strict hierarchies of skill and gender within the factories, they forced male workers to re-examine their ideas about 'masculine' and 'feminine' work, and women's role in the work place. Using new Russian archival materials, Women at the Gates is the first social history of Soviet women workers in the 1930s.
