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100 1  Jalalzai, Farida. 
245 10 Shattered, cracked or firmly intact? :|bwomen and the 
       executive glass ceiling worldwide /|cFarida Jalalzai. 
260    Oxford ;|aNew York :|bOxford University Press,|c2016. 
300    xii, 305 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-292) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
520    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. 
650  0 Women executives. 
650  0 Glass ceiling (Employment discrimination) 
650  0 Sex discrimination. 
650  7 Glass ceiling (Employment discrimination)|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01741181 
650  7 Sex discrimination.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01114365 
650  7 Women executives.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01177651 
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