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Author Jalalzai, Farida.

Title Shattered, cracked or firmly intact? : women and the executive glass ceiling worldwide / Farida Jalalzai.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  331.481 J26S    Check Shelf
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Description xii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-292) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Women executives : the literature -- Women executives : positions, selections, systems, and powers -- A more in-depth analysis of executive positions and paths -- General backgrounds of women leaders -- Specific pathways to power : political families and activism -- A statistical analysis of women's rule -- An overview of female presidential candidacies -- Close but not close enough : the historic candidacies of Hillary Clinton and Ségolène Royal -- Conclusions on women executives and directions for future research.
Summary How do men's and women's paths to political office differ? Once in office, are women's powers more constrained that those of men? The number of women in executive leadership positions has grown substantially over the past five decades, and women now govern in vastly different contexts around the world. But their climbs to such positions don't necessarily correspond with social status and the existence of gender equity. In Shattered, Cracked, or Firmly Intact? Farida Jalalzai outlines important patterns related to women executive's paths, powers, and potential impacts. In doing so, she combines qualitative and quantitative analysis and explores both contexts in which women successfully gained executive power and those in which they did not. The glass ceiling has truly shattered in Finland (where, to date, three different women have come to executive power), only cracked in the United Kingdom (with Margaret Thatcher as the only example of a female prime minister), and remains firmly intact in the United States. While women appear to have made substantial gains, they still face many obstacles in their pursuit of national executive office. Women, compared to their male counterparts, more often ascend to relatively weak posts and gain offices through appointment as opposed to popular election. When dominant women presidents do rise through popular vote, they still almost always hail from political families and from within unstable systems. Jalalzai asserts the importance of institutional features in contributing positive representational effects for women national leaders. Her analysis offers both a broad understanding of global dynamics of executive power as well as particulars about individual women leaders from every region of the globe over the past fifty years. Viewing gender as embedded within institutions and processes, this book provides an unprecedented and comprehensive view of the complex, contradictory, and multifaceted dimensions of women's national leadership.
Subject Women executives.
Glass ceiling (Employment discrimination)
Sex discrimination.
Glass ceiling (Employment discrimination) (OCoLC)fst01741181
Sex discrimination. (OCoLC)fst01114365
Women executives. (OCoLC)fst01177651
ISBN 0190602090
9780190602093
0199943532 (Cloth)
9780199943531 (Cloth)
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