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Women at the Top: Powerful Leaders Tell Us How to Combine Work and Family
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Women at the Top: Powerful Leaders Tell Us How to Combine Work and Family Hardcover - 2008 - 1st Edition

by Diane F. Halpern; Fanny M. Cheung


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Using case studies of top-level women and research in the field, Women at the Top breaks new ground and offers new insight into how women can create dually-successful lives.

  • explores the work histories, motivation, leadership styles, mentors, and family backgrounds of a diverse assortment of top-level women
  • includes the case studies of the President of Old Navy/Gap, the Chairman of Deloitte and Touche, the VP of IBM operations, a Supreme Court Judge in China, President of Legislative Council in Hong Kong, several university presidents, and more
  • weighs the positive effects of multiple roles and positive and negative work-life spill over
  • discusses strategies for success (e.g., scaling back, juggling), the need for social support, and the importance of cultural context

From the rear cover

Very few women make it to the top of their profession and among those that do, almost half have no children or other caregiving responsibilities. The message for working women everywhere has been clear--to make it to the top you have to pick one--your family or your career. In this groundbreaking book, two experts present a new look at how women can create dually-successful lives. Women everywhere would like an answer to the universal question of how to succeed in their profession when they are also wives, mothers, and family care givers. Using the best psychological research and personal interviews with 60 women with families and prominent leadership positions in the U. S., China, and Hong Kong, Women at the Top examines the most pressing question of our time--can women have it all?

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  • Title Women at the Top: Powerful Leaders Tell Us How to Combine Work and Family
  • Author Diane F. Halpern; Fanny M. Cheung
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
  • Date 2008-10
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781405171052 / 1405171057
  • Weight 1.4 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 6.1 x 1.3 in (22.61 x 15.49 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
    • Topical: Family
  • Library of Congress subjects Work and family, Women executives - Family relationships
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008018527
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.36

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Citations

  • Choice, 07/01/2009, Page 0

About the author

Diane F. Halpern is a past-president of the American Psychological Association, as well as Professor of Psychology and Director of the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children at Claremont McKenna College. Diane has published over 350 articles and many books including, Thought and Knowledge: An Introduction to Critical Thinking (4th ed.); Sex Differences in Cognitive Abilities (3rd ed.), a special two-volume edited issue of the American Behavioral Scientist entitled Changes at the Intersection of Work and Family (edited with Heidi R. Riggio, 2006) and From Work-Family Balance to Work-Family Interaction: Changing the Metaphor (edited with Susan Murphy, 2005).

Fanny M. Cheung pioneered the field of gender and women's studies in Hong Kong by founding the Gender Research Centre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1985, and is its current Director. From 1996-1999, she took leave from the University to serve as the founding Chairperson of the Equal Opportunities Commission, a statutory body that implements the discrimination legislation in Hong Kong. She has served as a Delegate to the National Congress of Women in the People's Republic of China for the past 11 years, and a member of the Women's Commission of the Hong Kong SAR Government from 2001 to 2006. Cheung is currently Professor of Psychology and Chairperson of the Department of Psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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