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The Last Male Bastion Douglas M. Branson (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

The Last Male Bastion By Douglas M. Branson (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

The Last Male Bastion by Douglas M. Branson (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

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Examining the educations, career progressions, pronouncements and observations, as well as family lives, of the 19 women who have risen to the top, this book asks, and attempts to answer, two questions: why haven't more women reached the CEO suite and how might women in business better position themselves to ascend to the pinnacle.

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The Last Male Bastion: Gender and the CEO Suite in Americas Public Companies by Douglas M. Branson (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Not until 1997 did a female become chief executive officer of a Fortune 500 corporation (Jill Barad, at Mattel Toy Co. Womens progress since that time has been in fits and starts, exceedingly slow. The number of women CEOs reached 4 in 1999 only to slide back to 2 in 2001. Meanwhile, while not reaching anything approaching parity, women made significant strides in politics (as senators, cabinet secretaries and governors), in not-for-profit spheres (as CEOs of health care and hospital organizations or of United Way chapters, with budgets of billions of dollars), and at colleges and universities (23 % have female presidents or chancellors). Currently, 3%, or 15, of Fortune 500 CEOs are women.

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 havent more women reached the CEO suite?How might women in business better position themselves to ascend to the pinnacle?

The Last Male Bastion Reviews

"Meticulously researched, thoroughly documented, and highly readable, this volume is a valuable contribution to the literature. Highly recommended." M.S. Myers, Carnegie Mellon University, CHOICE (August 2010)

About Douglas M. Branson (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Douglas M. Branson received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his J.D. from Northwestern University. He earned an LL.M. from the University of Virginia, specializing in corporate law and securities regulation. Before joining the faculty at Pittsburgh, Professor Branson taught at Seattle University. He has been a visiting professor at a number of schools, including the University of Alabama as Charles Tweedy Distinguished Visiting Professor, the University of Hong Kong as Paul Hastings Distinguished Visiting Professor, the University of Washington (Seattle) as Condon-Faulknor Distinguished Professor, Cornell University, Arizona State University, Washington University (St. Louis), and universities in Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Indonesia, Belgium, Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, South Africa, and England. He holds a permanent faculty appointment as Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia, in its Masters of Law Program.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents Preface Part I: PORTRAITS OF WOMEN CEOS. Chapter 1. The Fall of Jill Barad at Mattel Toy. Chapter 2. Carleton Fiorina at Hewlett-Packard. Chapter 3. A CEO Success - Andrea Jung at Avon Products. Chapter 4. Plowhorse - Marion Sandler at Golden West Financial. Chapter 5. Ann Mulcahy at Xerox and Patricia Russo at Alcatel-Lucent - Fix It CEOs. Chapter 6. Go Where They Arent - Susan Ivey, Paula Reynolds, and Patricia Woertz. Chapter 7. Two Additional CEO Portraits: Barbara Barnes and Meg Whitman. Chapter 8. Five Who Leave Few Footsteps. Chapter 9. CEO Additions of 2008- 09 . Part II: WHY THERE ARENT MORE. Chapter 10. Why Women? Chapter 11. How We Choose CEOs. Chapter 12. Glass Ceilings, Floors, Walls and Cliffs. Chapter 13. Work/Life Issues and the Price of Motherhood. Chapter 14. In a Different Register. Chapter 15. Legacies of Tokenism: Retreats into Stereotypes. Part III: HOW TO GET THERE. Chapter 16. Narcissists, Malignant Narcissists, and Productive Narcissists. Chapter 17. Good to Great Companies and Plowhorse CEOs. Chapter 18. The Plowhorse Versus the Showhorse. Chapter 19. Education, Mentoring, and Networking. Chapter 20. Lessons Learned. Chapter 21. Conclusion: Evolving a New Paradigm for a New Century.

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NPB9780415872959
9780415872959
0415872952
The Last Male Bastion: Gender and the CEO Suite in Americas Public Companies by Douglas M. Branson (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
Douglas M. Branson (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2009-12-08
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