What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need

What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know

An essential resource for any working woman,Â What Works for Women at WorkÂ is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering office politics as a woman. Authored by Joan C. Williams, one of the nationâ€™s most-cited experts on women and work, and her daughter, writer Rachel Dempsey, this unique book offers a multi-generational perspective into the realities of todayâ€™s workplace. Often women receive messages that they have only themselves to blame for failing to get aheadâ€”Negotiate more! Stop being such a wimp! Stop being such a witch!Â What Works for Women at WorkÂ tells women itâ€™s not their fault. The simple fact is that office politics often benefits men over women.Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
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Based on interviews with 127 successful working women, over half of them women of color,Â What Works for Women at WorkÂ presents a toolkit for getting ahead in todayâ€™s workplace. Distilling over 35 years of research, Williams and Dempsey offer four crisp patterns that affect working women:Â Prove-It-Again!, the Tightrope, the Maternal Wall, and the Tug of War. Each represents different challenges and requires different strategiesâ€”which is why women need to be savvier than men to survive and thrive in high-powered careers.
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Williams and Dempseyâ€™s analysis of working women is nuanced and in-depth, going far beyond the traditional cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all approaches of most career guides for women. Throughout the book, they weave real-life anecdotes from the women they interviewed, along with quick kernels of advice like a â€œNew Girl Action Plan,â€ ways to â€œTake Care of Yourselfâ€, and evenÂ â€œComeback Linesâ€ for dealing with sexual harassment and other difficult situations.Â
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Up-beat, pragmatic, and chock full of advice,Â What Works for Women at WorkÂ is an indispensable guide for working women.
Country USA
Manufacturer NYU Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2020-08-25
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	NYU Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2020-08-25
Format	Kindle eBook

What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know

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