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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
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650 7 Sex discrimination.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01114365
650 7 Women executives.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01177651
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