Women at the Top: Powerful Leaders Tell Us How to Combine Work and Family

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?

Spis treści:
Foreword.
1. For Women at the Top: How’s the Weather up There?.
2. Learning from Mothers, Mentors, and Others.
3. Saving and Spending Time.
4. Happy Homemaker, Happy Marriage — The Female Executive Edition.
5. Cherished Children–Tales of Guilt and Pride.
6. Work–Family Spillover: From Conflict to Harmony.
7. Culture Counts—Leading as the World Changes.
8. Leading as Women: Styles, Obstacles, and Perceptions.
9. How to Lead a Dually Successful Life.
References.
Appendix: Biography of the Women Leaders

Nota biograficzna:
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 Interse ction 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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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?