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By Joan Williams, Rachel Dempsey, Anne-Marie Slaughter

ISBN-10: 1479835455

ISBN-13: 9781479835454

An crucial source for any operating woman, What Works for girls at Work is a accomplished and insightful consultant for getting to know place of work politics as a lady. Authored via Joan C. Williams, one of many nation’s most-cited specialists on ladies and paintings, and her daughter, author Rachel Dempsey, this distinctive ebook bargains a multi-generational standpoint into the realities of today’s office. usually ladies obtain messages that they've merely themselves guilty for failing to get ahead—Negotiate extra! cease being one of these wimp! cease being the sort of witch! What Works for ladies at Work tells ladies it’s no longer their fault. the easy truth is that workplace politics frequently advantages males over women.       
 
Based on interviews with 127 profitable operating ladies, over half them ladies of color, What Works for girls at Work presents a toolkit for purchasing forward in today’s place of work. Distilling over 35 years of analysis, Williams and Dempsey provide 4 crisp styles that impact operating women:  Prove-It-Again!, the Tightrope, the Maternal Wall, and the Tug of battle. every one represents diversified demanding situations and calls for assorted strategies—which is why ladies have to be savvier than males to outlive and thrive in high-powered careers.
 
Williams and Dempsey’s research of operating girls is nuanced and in-depth, going some distance past the normal cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all techniques of so much profession publications for ladies. through the booklet, they weave real-life anecdotes from the ladies they interviewed, besides speedy kernels of recommendation like a “New woman motion Plan,” how you can “Take Care of Yourself”, and even “Comeback traces” for facing sexual harassment and different tricky situations. 
 
Up-beat, pragmatic, and chock packed with advice, What Works for ladies at Work is an imperative advisor for operating women.

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Patterns that her superiors weren’t sure she was ready to take. After several successful months, she approached her manager to ask why she hadn’t yet gotten the title, as everything had been going well. He explained that, while she had been doing well under the current structure, the company had just hired someone new as her immediate supervisor, and it was he who would ultimately make the decision. The New Girl eventually went on maternity leave not knowing whether she would get the title that matched her job.

Dominance and assertiveness are traits associated with masculinity; submissiveness and passivity are traits associated with femininity. The Stolen Idea works along two levels: one, feminine women may be less likely to state an idea in a way that commands people’s attention, making it easy to overlook. Two, since the traits consistent with leadership and idea generation are gendered masculine, there’s a better cognitive “fit” for the man’s assertion of a new idea than the woman’s, making it easier for others to pick up on.

Directing our attention only to women leaves out a crucial point: often women’s disadvantage stems not from the way they are treated but from the way men are treated. For every woman passed over for a promotion on account of her gender, there’s a man who gets a leg up because of his. 20 What we often think of as discrimination is actually, from another perspective, the fallout from someone else’s good luck. One way to reduce in-group favoritism is to require all employees to follow objective rules.

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