Through the Labyrinth: The Truth About How Women Become Leaders

Alice H. Eagly and Linda L. Carli, "Through the Labyrinth: The Truth About How Women Become Leaders"
English | ISBN: 1422116913 | 2007 | 336 pages | PDF | 27,6 MB

Despite substantial progress, women remain rare enough in elite positions of capacity that their presence still evokes a import of wonder. In "Through the Labyrinth", Alice Eagly and Linda Carli scrutinize why women's paths to ability remain difficult to traverse. First, Eagly and Carli confirm that the glass ceiling is ~t one longer a useful metaphor and pr~ seven reasons why. They propose the labyrinth as a better image and solve how to navigate through it. This of moment and practical book addresses such ticklish questions as: How far have women verily come as leaders? Do stereotypes and prejudices pacify limit women's opportunities? Do the community resist women's leadership more than men's? And, accomplish organisations create obstacles to women who would subsist leaders?This book's rich parsing is founded on scientific research from psychology, political economy, sociology, political science, and management. The authors ground their conclusions in that research and call upon a wealth of engaging anecdotes and personal accounts to illustrate the practical principles that issue. With excellent leadership in short yield, no group, organisation, or nation be possible to afford to restrict women's way of approach to leadership roles. This book evaluates whether of the like kind restrictions are present and, when they are, which we can do to eliminate them.