Glass Ceilings and Bottomless Pits

• Author : Randy Pearl Albelda,Randy Lalbelda,Chris Tilly
• Publisher : South End Press
• Release Date : 1997
• Total pages : 221
• ISBN : 9780896085657

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Summary : 'This extraordinarily lucid book demonstrates that women from all walks of life get the short end of the stick because of their gender. From welfare mothers to corporate executives, Albelda and Tilly show and why the powers-that-be benefit from scapegoating and marginalizing women.' Professor Mimi Abramowitz, author, Regulating the ...

• Author : Jonathan Gressel
• Publisher : JHU Press
• Release Date : 2020-03-03
• Total pages : 488
• ISBN : 9780896085657

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Summary : A compelling synthesis of ideas from agronomy, medicine, breeding, physiology, population genetics, molecular biology, and biotechnology, Genetic Glass Ceilings presents transgenics as an inevitable and desperately necessary approach to securing and diversifying the world's food supply....

• Author : Karine S. Moe,Dianna J. Shandy
• Publisher : University of Georgia Press
• Release Date : 2010-02-25
• Total pages : 232
• ISBN : 9780896085657

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Summary : When significant numbers of college-educated American women began, in the early twenty-first century, to leave paid work to become stay-at-home mothers, an emotionally charged national debate erupted. Karine Moe and Dianna Shandy, a professional economist and an anthropologist, respectively, decided to step back from the sometimes overheated rhetoric around the ...

• Author : Deborah Woo
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release Date : 2000
• Total pages : 241
• ISBN : 9780896085657

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Summary : Throughout the history of the United States, fluctuations in cultural diversity, immigration, and ethnic group status have been closely linked to shifts in the economy and labor market. Over three decades after the beginning of the civil rights movement, and in the midst of significant socioeconomic change at the end ...

• Author : Daniels, Glenda,Tarisai, Nyamweda
• Publisher : Gender Links
• Release Date : 2018-11-05
• Total pages : 88
• ISBN : 9780896085657

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Summary : The third Glass Ceilings survey of South African media launched on 19 October - national press freedom day - 2018 shows there have been dramatic shifts in the race and gender composition of media since the first study twelve years ago. But black women are still not fairly represented in media decision-making; ...

• Author : William B. Harvey
• Publisher : SUNY Press
• Release Date : 1999-04-01
• Total pages : 169
• ISBN : 9780896085657

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Summary : African American university and college presidents, vice presidents, and deans offer firsthand reflections on their encounters with racism in higher education and the strategies they use to overcome obstacles they face....

• Author : Christine Firer Hinze
• Publisher : Paulist Press
• Release Date : 2015
• Total pages : 155
• ISBN : 9780896085657

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Summary : Download or read online Glass Ceilings and Dirt Floors written by Christine Firer Hinze, published by Paulist Press which was released on 2015. Get Glass Ceilings and Dirt Floors Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle....

• Author : DIANE Publishing Company
• Publisher : DIANE Publishing
• Release Date : 1995-10
• Total pages : 56
• ISBN : 9780896085657

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Summary : A study, in Minnesota, of the manner in which organizations in Minn. fill management decision-making positions; the practices used to foster the necessary qualifications for advancement; & the compensation & reward programs currently used in the workplace. Results obtained from a survey sent to nearly 2,000 Minn. organizations. Also studied the effects of ...

• Author : Linda González MSW MFA
• Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
• Release Date : 2020-07-21
• Total pages : 154
• ISBN : 9780896085657

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Summary : Breaking Through Your Own Glass Ceiling offers simple, proven prosperity practices to address power dynamics faced by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and other underrepresented communities. You can begin today to identify and uproot unhealthy patterns and replace them with consistent thoughts and behaviors to embrace a full-hearted ...

• Author : Charles S Areni ,Stephen S Holden
• Publisher : DARLINGTON PRESS
• Release Date : 2014-05-13
• Total pages : 243
• ISBN : 9780896085657

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Summary : The other glass ceiling offers an insightful male perspective to a debate on the lack of work-family balance in modern day families. Based on research and full of entertaining anecdotes, this book challenges the predominant gender roles that expect a mother to care for her family and doubt her commitment ...

• Author : Dr Miriam David,Miriam David,Diana Woodward
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2005-08-10
• Total pages : 224
• ISBN : 9780896085657

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Summary : Why is it that in many universities the number of women professors can literally be counted on the fingers of one hand while the number of men number in the hundreds? Why are women academics so relatively disadvantaged and men so firmly in control? In an attempt to find answers ...

• Author : Carole K. Adair
• Publisher : Universal-Publishers
• Release Date : 1999
• Total pages : 203
• ISBN : 9780896085657

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Summary : Barriers which hinder career advancement of women are complex and varied. They have become top agenda items for most corporations and the gov-ernment. The "glass ceiling" is a term that symbolizes a variety of barriers that prevent qualified individuals from advancing higher in their organization. Although many women hold management ...

• Author : Rainbow Murray
• Publisher : ABC-CLIO
• Release Date : 2010
• Total pages : 267
• ISBN : 9780896085657

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Summary : This examination of the role of gender stereotyping in media coverage of executive elections uses nine case studies from around the world to provide a unique comparative perspective. * Essays by 13 distinguished scholars combining research on gender and elections with expertise in a particular country * A table highlighting key findings for ...

• Author : Barbara Palmer,Dennis Simon
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release Date : 2010-11-01
• Total pages : 272
• ISBN : 9780896085657

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Summary : Why has the integration of women into Congress been so slow? Is there a "political glass ceiling" for women? Although women use the same strategic calculations as men to decide when to run, the decision regarding where to run is something else. While redistricting has increasingly protected incumbents, it also ...

• Author : Nina Anderson
• Publisher : Safe Goods
• Release Date : 2009
• Total pages : 134
• ISBN : 9780896085657

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Summary : Retired corporate pilot, Nina Anderson not only tells her story but worked in collaboration with several other women pilots who forged new territory in the 1970s and 1980s by being the first hired by their airline or their corporate flight department. In a time when women were mostly excluded from ...