Shattered, cracked or firmly intact? : women and the executive glass ceiling worldwide /

In the past 50 years, fewer than eighty women worldwide have attained the office of prime minister or president. In 2010 women held just seventeen of the world's 252 executive posts - slightly less than seven percent. In 'Shattered, Cracked, or Firmly Intact?', Farida Jalalzai explore...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jalalzai, Farida
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Temas:
Women executives.
Glass ceiling (Employment discrimination)
Sex discrimination.
Plafond de verre (Discrimination dans l'emploi)
Discrimination sexuelle.
sex discrimination.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Labor.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Labor & Industrial Relations.
Sex discrimination
Women executives
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Women executives: the literature
  • Women executives: positions, selections, systems, and powers
  • A more in depth analysis of executive positions and paths
  • General backgrounds of women leaders
  • Specific pathways to power: political families and activism
  • A statistical analysis of women's rule
  • An overview of female presidential candidacies
  • Close but not close enough: the historic candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Ségolène Royal
  • Conclusions on women executives and directions for future research.

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