Winning Roles for Career-Minded Women : Understanding the Roles We Learned as Girls and How to Change Them for Success at Work

by Kafrissen, Binnie Shusman

• ISBN13: 9780891061465
• ISBN10: 0891061460
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

Giving voice to the lives of all working women today, Winning Roles for Career-Minded Women moves beyond the superficial to address the deeper, psychological issues that lay the foundation for how women succeed or fail in the workplace.

Author Biography

Binnie Shusman Kafrissen, Ph.D., is an organizational psychologist Fran Shusman, Ph.D., is a licensed counseling psychologist in private practice and a clinical associate in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
Joanna Smith Bers
Preface	xi
About the Authors	xiii
Introduction	xv
PART ONE The Roles We Play	1	(100)
Roles in the Family	3	(16)
Role of the Peacekeeper	19	(12)
Role of the Maverick	31	(12)
Role of the Pleaser	43	(12)
Role of the Caregiver	55	(12)
Role of the Survivor	67	(12)
Role of the Entrepreneur	79	(12)
Comparing and Combining Roles	91	(10)
PART TWO Changing Our Roles to Succeed at Work	101	(66)
Understanding Roles in the Workplace	103	(20)
Changing the Way We Think	123	(20)
Changing the Way We Act	143	(16)
Creating Our Future	159	(8)
References	167	(2)
Index	169