Women and Leadership The State of Play and Strategies for Change

by Kellerman, Barbara; Rhode, Deborah L.

• ISBN13: 9780787988333
• ISBN10: 0787988332
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-03
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Women and Leadership brings together in one comprehensive volume preeminent scholars from a range of disciplines to address the challenges involving women and leadership. These experts explore when and how women exercise power and what stands in their way. This groundbreaking volume offers readers an informed analysis of the state of women and leadership and offers the most informed and current thinking on+ The perils of stereotypes+ The importance of leadership style+ Gender differences in the decision to seek leadership roles+ Lessons from women leaders+ "Opt out" patterns and the need for flexible career paths+ Global inequalities and initiatives+ Strategies that get women to the topWomen and Leadership is indispensable for understanding recent progress toward equal opportunity and the challenges that remain.

Author Biography

Barbara Kellerman is Research Director of the Center for Public Leadership and Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Universitys Kennedy School of Government. She served as the Center's Executive Director from 2000-2003. Kellerman has held professorships at Fordham, Tufts, Fairleigh Dickinson, George Washington, and Uppsala Universities. She also served as Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at Fairleigh Dickinson, and as Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Leadership at the Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland. She was awarded a Danforth Fellowship and three Fulbright fellowships. At Uppsala (1996-97), she held the Fulbright Chair in American Studies. Kellerman is author and editor of many books. She appears often on media outlets such as CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, NPR, and BBC Radio; and she has contributed articles and reviews to, among others, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, and the Harvard Business Review.

Deborah L. Rhode is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and Director of the Stanford Center on Ethics.+é-á She is the former Director of the Keck Center on Legal Ethics and the Legal Profession at Stanford University School of Law; the former chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession and the former president of the Association of American Law Schools.+é-á She also served as senior counsel to the Minority members of the Judiciary Committee, the United States House of Representatives, on presidential impeachment issues. She is the second most frequently cited scholar on legal ethics and the National Law Journal has profiled her as one of the country's fifty most influential women lawyers.+é-á She has received the American Bar Foundation's W. M. Keck Foundation Award for Distinguished Scholarship on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, and the American Bar Association's Pro Bono Publico Award for her work on expanding public service opportunities in law schools. She+é-á+é-áclerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall before+é-áshe joined the Stanford faculty.+é-á She is a former director of Stanford's Institute for Research on Women and Gender and writes primarily in the area of legal ethics and gender discrimination.+é-á She is currently a columnist for the National Law Journal and Vice Chair of the Board of the NOW Legal Defense Fund.+é-á She has also served as a trustee of Yale University and member of the board of Equal Rights Advocates.+é-áShe is the author or coauthor of fifteen books and over 100 articles.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. xiii
Women and Leadership: The State of Play	p. 1
Gender Differences and Gender Stereotypes
Crossing the Bridge: Reflections on Women and Leadership	p. 65
The Great Women Theory of Leadership? Perils of Positive Stereotypes and Precarious Pedestals	p. 93
Overcoming Resistance to Women Leaders: The Importance of Leadership Style	p. 127
Women, Leadership, and the Natural Order	p. 149
What Difference Will Women Judges Make? Looking Once More at the "Woman Question"	p. 175
Leadership in Context: Women in Politics
Opening the Door: Women Leaders and Constitution Building in Iran and Afghanistan	p. 197
Will Gender Balance in Politics Come by Itself?	p. 227
The Future of Women's Political Leadership: Gender and the Decision to Run for Elective Office	p. 251
It's Woman Time	p. 271
She's the Candidate! A Woman for President	p. 283
Leadership Redefined: Authority, Authenticity, Power
Leadership, Authority, and Women: A Man's Challenge	p. 311
Bringing Your Whole Self to Work: Lessons in Authentic Engagement from Women Leaders	p. 329
Women and Power: New Perspectives on Old Challenges	p. 361
Women in Corporate Leadership: Status and Prospects	p. 383
Redefining the Problem, Recasting the Solutions
Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Women's Nonlinear Career Paths	p. 407
Isn't She Delightful? Creating Relationships That Get Women to the Top (and Keep Them There)	p. 431
Disrupting Gender, Revising Leadership	p. 453
Acknowledgments	p. 475
Contributors	p. 477
Index	p. 489
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