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No seat at the table : how corporate governance and law keep women out of the boardroom /

Filled with real-life cases, No Seat at the Table opens the closed doors of the boardroom and reveals the dynamics of the corporate governance process and the double standards that often characterize it. Based on empirical evidence, Branson concludes that women have to follow different paths than me...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Branson, Douglas M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : New York University Press, [2007]
Colección:Critical America.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. Glass ceilings, floors, and walls.
  • Restraints on advancement
  • Glass ceilings and floors: the court cases
  • Prices of motherhood: stereotyping, work/life issues, and opting out
  • In a different register: women in the governance model
  • Bully broads, iron maidens, queen bees, and ice queens
  • pt. 2. Climbing the corporate ladder: myths and realities.
  • Routes to the top: the advice
  • The road to the top: the evidence
  • The 2005 proxy data
  • Women and minorities in organizations: the legacy of tokenism
  • pt. 3. Corporate governance and the keeper of the keys to the boardroom.
  • Corporate governance in America
  • Women, culture, and the U.S. model of corporate governance
  • Women in corporate governance: the numbers versus the expectations
  • pt. 4. Getting a seat at the boardroom table.
  • Paradigm shifts: a tale of three women
  • Prescriptions.