The last male bastion : gender and the CEO suite in America's public companies / Douglas M. Branson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Branson, Douglas M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women chief executive officers--United States.

Women chief executive officers.

Glass ceiling (Employment discrimination)--United States.

Glass ceiling (Employment discrimination).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Not until 1997 did a female become chief executive officer of a Fortune 500 corporation (Jill Barad, at Mattel Toy Co. Women's 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 universi

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I Portraits of Women CEOs; 1 The Fall of Jill Barad at Mattel Toy; 2 Carleton Fiorina at Hewlett-Packard; 3 A CEO Success-Andrea Jung at Avon Products; 4 Plowhorse-Marion Sandler at Golden West Financial; 5 Anne Mulcahy at Xerox and Patricia Russo at Alcatel-Lucent-Fix It CEOs; 6 Go Where They Aren't; 7 Two Additional CEO Portraits; 8 Five Who Leave Few Footprints; 9 CEO Additions of 2008-09; Part II Why There Aren't More; 10 Why Women?; 11 How We Choose CEOs; 12 Glass Ceilings, Floors, Walls, and Cliffs

13 Work-Life Issues and the Price of Motherhood14 In a Different Register; 15 Legacies of Tokenism: Retreats into Stereotypes; Part III How to Get There; 16 Narcissists, Malignant Narcissists, and Productive Narcissists; 17 Good-to-Great Companies and Plowhorse CEOs; 18 The Plowhorse Versus the Showhorse; 19 Education, Mentoring, and Networking; 20 Lessons Learned; 21 Conclusion: Evolving a New Paradigm for a New Century; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-23437-X

1-135-23438-8

1-282-97503-X

9786612975035

0-203-86566-9

9780203865668

OCLC:

570375744