Halpern / Cheung Women at the Top

Powerful Leaders Tell Us How to Combine Work and Family
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5667-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, E-Book

Using case studies of top-level women and research in the field,Women at the Top breaks new ground and offers new insightinto how women can create dually-successful lives.
* explores the work histories, motivation, leadership styles,mentors, and family backgrounds of a diverse assortment oftop-level women
* includes the case studies of the President of Old Navy/Gap, theChairman of Deloitte and Touche, the VP of IBM operations, aSupreme Court Judge in China, President of Legislative Council inHong Kong, several university presidents, and more
* weighs the positive effects of multiple roles and positive andnegative work-life spill over
* discusses strategies for success (e.g., scaling back,juggling), the need for social support, and the importance ofcultural context

Autoren/Hrsg.

Halpern, Diane F.

Cheung, Fanny M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vi
Chapter 1 For Women at the Top: How's the Weather upThere? 1
Chapter 2 Learning from Mothers, Mentors, and Others 21
Chapter 3 Saving and Spending Time 47
Chapter 4 Happy Homemaker, Happy Marriage: The Female ExecutiveEdition 73
Chapter 5 Cherished Children: Tales of Guilt and Pride 106
Chapter 6 Work-Family Spillover: From Conflict to Harmony131
Chapter 7 Culture Counts: Leading as the World Changes 154
Chapter 8 Leading as Women: Styles, Obstacles, and Perceptions183
Chapter 9 How to Lead a Dually Successful Life 208
References 231
Appendix: Biography of the Women Leaders 246
Index 278

Über Autor(innen)

Diane F. Halpern is a past-president of the AmericanPsychological Association, as well as Professor of Psychology andDirector of the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children atClaremont McKenna College. Diane has published over 350 articlesand many books including, Thought and Knowledge: An Introductionto Critical Thinking (4th ed.); Sex Differences in CognitiveAbilities (3rd ed.), a special two-volume edited issue of theAmerican Behavioral Scientist entitled Changes at theIntersection 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 andwomen's studies in Hong Kong by founding the Gender ResearchCentre at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1985, and is itscurrent Director. From 1996-1999, she took leave from theUniversity to serve as the founding Chairperson of the EqualOpportunities Commission, a statutory body that implements thediscrimination legislation in Hong Kong. She has served as aDelegate to the National Congress of Women in the People'sRepublic of China for the past 11 years, and a member of theWomen's Commission of the Hong Kong SAR Government from 2001to 2006. Cheung is currently Professor of Psychology andChairperson of the Department of Psychology at the ChineseUniversity of Hong Kong.