Women and Leadership: The State of Play and Strategies for Change
- 8h 11m
- Barbara Kellerman, Deborah L. Rhode (eds)
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2007
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.
About the Editors
Barbara Kellerman is James MacGregor Burns lecturer in public leadership at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. She served as executive director of the Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership from 2000 to 2003, and as research director from 2003 to 2006. Kellerman has held professorships at Fordham, Tufts, Fairleigh Dickinson, George Washington, and Uppsala universities. She also served as director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Leadership at the Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland. Kellerman is author and editor of many books, including Leadership: Multidisciplinary Perspectives and The Political Presidency: Practice of Leadership. She appears often on media outlets such as CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, NPR, and BBC Radio, and she has contributed articles and reviews to, among others, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Harvard Business Review. Her most recent book is Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters. Her next book, on followership, will appear in 2008.
Deborah L. Rhode is the Ernest W. McFarland professor of law and director of the Stanford Center on Ethics at Stanford University School of Law. She is the former chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession, former president of the Association of American Law Schools, and former director of Stanford’s Institute on Women and Gender. She is the author or coauthor of nineteen books and more than two hundred articles in the areas of gender and professional ethics. Her recent publications include Gender and Law (with Katherine Bartlett), Moral Leadership, In Pursuit of Knowledge, and The Difference “Difference” Makes: Women and Leadership.
In this Book
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Women and Leadership—The State of Play and Strategies for Change
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Foreword
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Women and Leadership—The State of Play
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Crossing The Bridge—Reflections on Women and Leadership
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The Great Women Theory Of Leadership?—Perils of Positive Stereotypes and Precarious Pedestals
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Overcoming Resistance To Women Leaders—The Importance of Leadership Style
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Women, Leadership, and The Natural Order
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What Difference Will Women Judges Make?—Looking Once More at the “Woman Question”
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Opening The Door—Women Leaders and Constitution Building in Iraq and Afghanistan
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Will Gender Balance In Politics Come By Itself?
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The Future Of Women’s Political Leadership—Gender and the Decision to Run for Elective Office
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It’s Woman Time
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She’s The Candidate!—A Woman for President
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Leadership, Authority, And Women—A Man’s Challenge
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Bringing Your Whole Self To Work—Lessons In Authentic Engagement From Women Leaders
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Women and Power—New Perspectives on Old Challenges
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Women In Corporate Leadership—Status and Prospects
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Off-Ramps and On-Ramps—Women’s Nonlinear Career Paths
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Isn’t She Delightful?—Creating Relationships That Get Women to the Top (and Keep Them There)
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Disrupting Gender, Revising Leadership
