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The terror of the machine: technology, work, gender, and ecology on the U.S.-Mexico border

The terror of the machine: technology, work, gender, and ecology on the U.S.-Mexico border


Devon Gerardo Peña



The terror of the machine: technology, work, gender, and ecology on the U.S.-Mexico border...
Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead... But Gutsy Girls Do: Nine Secrets Every Working Woman Must Know

Why Good Girls Don't Get Ahead... But Gutsy Girls Do: Nine Secrets Every Working Woman Must Know


Kate White



From Publishers Weekly The editor-in-chief of Redbook shares her strategies for professional success. Copyright 1996 Reed...
The Male Mind at Work: A Woman's Guide to Working with Men

The Male Mind at Work: A Woman's Guide to Working with Men


Deborah Swiss



From Publishers Weekly What could have been a breakthrough book for working women who want to hone their skills for succe...
Why Women Earn Less: How to Make What You're Really Worth

Why Women Earn Less: How to Make What You're Really Worth


Mikelann R. Valterra



Why Women Earn Less: How to Make What You're Really Worth...
The Spinners and Weavers of Auffay: Rural Industry and the Sexual Division of Labor in a French Village

The Spinners and Weavers of Auffay: Rural Industry and the Sexual Division of Labor in a French Village


Gay L. Gullickson



Review "...an intelligently and carefully executed study...stands out as one where the role of women is carefully treated...
The Voice of Success: A Woman's Guide to a Powerful and Persuasive Voice

The Voice of Success: A Woman's Guide to a Powerful and Persuasive Voice


Joni Wilson



Review "This book is comprehensive and full of valuable information that can help anyone instantly become a better communi...
Embodying Women's Work

Embodying Women's Work


Caroline Gatrell



About the Author Caroline Gatrell is Lecturer in Management Learning and Leadership in the Management School at Lancaster...
Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Women Executives

Competing Devotions: Career and Family among Women Executives




Review Many professional women intuit that male colleagues whose spouse handle for them the details of everyday life are ...
Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap -- and What Women Can Do About It

Why Men Earn More: The Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap -- and What Women Can Do About It


Warren Farrell



From Publishers Weekly Why do men earn more than women? Because they deserve to, argues this contrarian challenge to femi...
Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations (Studies in Management, Organizations Andsociety, 6)

Gender, Identity and the Culture of Organizations (Studies in Management, Organizations Andsociety, 6)




Review To illuminate the way in which firms operate as spaces where minds are gendered and men and women are constructed,...
Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide

Women Don't Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide


Linda Babcock, Sara Laschever



Amazon.com Review Men ask for what they want twice as often as women do and initiate negotiation four times more, report ...
The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond

The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond


Lillian Lincoln Lambert



From Publishers Weekly This is an old-fashioned rags-to-riches story that traces Lambert's upbringing as the daughter of ...
Career GPS: Strategies for Women Navigating the New Corporate Landscape

Career GPS: Strategies for Women Navigating the New Corporate Landscape


Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell, Linda Villarosa



From Bell, a business professor at Dartmouth’s Tuck business school, looks back over her own journey from a worki...
Womenomics: Write Your Own Rules for Success

Womenomics: Write Your Own Rules for Success


Claire Shipman, Katty Kay



From Publishers Weekly This collaboration between broadcasting powerhouses Shipman and Kay gives career women explicit pe...
Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets and Unequal Pay for Women in America (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)

Legalizing Gender Inequality: Courts, Markets and Unequal Pay for Women in America (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)


Robert L. Nelson, William P. Bridges



Review "Legalizing Gender Inequality presents a new organization-centered paradigm for understanding gender-differentials...
Working the Night Shift: Women in India's Call Center Industry

Working the Night Shift: Women in India's Call Center Industry


Reena Patel



Review "Call centers have become the flash point for debates about globalization. However, the social impacts of call cen...
Same Game Different Rules: How to Get Ahead Without Being a Bully Broad Ice Queen or

Same Game Different Rules: How to Get Ahead Without Being a Bully Broad Ice Queen or


Jean Hollands



Same Game Different Rules: How to Get Ahead Without Being a Bully Broad Ice Queen or...
Women and European Employment (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy, 16)

Women and European Employment (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy, 16)


Colette Fagan



Women and European Employment (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy, 16)...
Women in Management and Life Cycle: Aspects that Limit or Promote Getting to the Top

Women in Management and Life Cycle: Aspects that Limit or Promote Getting to the Top


Alicia Kaufmann



About the Author ALICIA E. KAUFMANN is a doctor in Sociology in Sorbonne Paris, France, and Madrid, Spain. She ...
Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place

Space Invaders: Race, Gender and Bodies Out of Place


Nirmal Puwar



About the Author Nirmal Puwar is Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer in Sociology, University College Northampton. She is...
Clearing the Hurdles: Women Building High-Growth Businesses (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books)

Clearing the Hurdles: Women Building High-Growth Businesses (Financial Times Prentice Hall Books)


Candida G. Brush, Elizabeth Gatewood, Myra M. Hart, Nancy M. Carter, Patricia G. Greene



From the Publisher Starting, funding, and growing a new venture are significant challenges for every entrepreneur. For wo...
Confessions of a Resilient Entrepreneur: Persevering to Success

Confessions of a Resilient Entrepreneur: Persevering to Success


Frumi Rachel Barr



From the Publisher This is a bold book that's broken into two parts. The first is Frumi's story which is amazing. The se...
Families at Work: Expanding the Bounds

Families at Work: Expanding the Bounds


Dan Clawson, Naomi Gerstel, Robert Zussman



What is the relationship between work and family in a world where employment creates endless tensions for families and families...
The Language of Female Leadership

The Language of Female Leadership


Judith Baxter



About the Author JUDITH BAXTER is Lecturer in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Reading, UK. ...
Women and the Labour Market in Japan's Industrialising Economy: The Textile Industry before the Pacific War

Women and the Labour Market in Japan's Industrialising Economy: The Textile Industry before the Pacific War


Janet Hunter



Review 'Janet Hunter's numerous articles on the textile industry and its female workers have, since the 1980s offered tanta...
Women, Work and Computing

Women, Work and Computing


Ruth Woodfield



Review "...anyone concerned about how to make a company, course, or a department, contain the ingredients for equality wi...
Inside Every Woman: Using the 10 Strengths You Didn't Know You Had to Get the Career and Life You Want Now

Inside Every Woman: Using the 10 Strengths You Didn't Know You Had to Get the Career and Life You Want Now


Vickie L. Milazzo



From Business success is spelled in many different ways. For most, it's dollars in the millions. For some, a corporate t...
Women's Leadership

Women's Leadership


Carole Elliott, Valerie Stead



About the Author VALERIE STEAD is an Independent Consultant and Fellow at Lancaster University. CAROLE ELLIOT is Lecturer...
The Best-Kept Secret: Women Corporate Lobbyists, Policy, and Power in the United States

The Best-Kept Secret: Women Corporate Lobbyists, Policy, and Power in the United States


Denise Benoit



Review "Just when we might think we have learned everything we possibly could about corporate lobbying due to all the r...
Women, Accounting and Narrative: Keeping Books in Eighteenth-Century England (Routledge International Studies in Business History, 8)

Women, Accounting and Narrative: Keeping Books in Eighteenth-Century England (Routledge International Studies in Business History, 8)


Rebecca Connor



Women, Accounting and Narrative: Keeping Books in Eighteenth-Century England (Routledge International Studies in Business History, 8)...
A Mother's Work: How Feminism, the Market, and Policy Shape Family Life

A Mother's Work: How Feminism, the Market, and Policy Shape Family Life


Professor Neil Gilbert



Review "'A groundbreaking book, A Mother's Work reconsiders traditional views on motherhood. Through his examination of t...
The Girls' Guide to Building a Million-Dollar Business A book NOT just for women

The Girls' Guide to Building a Million-Dollar Business A book NOT just for women


Susan Wilson Solovic



From Publishers Weekly Only 3% of women-owned businesses in the U.S. gross a million dollars or more in revenue. It doesn...
Supporting Women's Career Advancement: Challenges And Opportunities (New Horizons in Management Series)

Supporting Women's Career Advancement: Challenges And Opportunities (New Horizons in Management Series)


Ronald J. Burke, Mary C. Mattis



About the Author Edited by Ronald J. Burke, Professor of Organizational Behavior, Schulich School of Business, York Unive...
Corporate Strategy and Feminism (Routledge Research in Organizational Behaviour and Strategy)

Corporate Strategy and Feminism (Routledge Research in Organizational Behaviour and Strategy)


Angelique Du Toit



About the Author Angelique du Toit is Senior Lecturer in Business as the University of Sunderland, UK. ...
Enlightened Power: How Women are Transforming the Practice of Leadership

Enlightened Power: How Women are Transforming the Practice of Leadership


Keith Hollihan, Ellen Wingard, Lin Coughlin



From Publishers Weekly Each of the 40 essays in this collection offers a unique take on the challenges women face as they...
Microfinance Perils and Prospects (Routledge Studies in Development Economics)

Microfinance Perils and Prospects (Routledge Studies in Development Economics)


Erik Ringmar



Review 'This book is a useful addition to the growing literature on this subject.  The book is recommended to all th...
The War on Moms: On Life in a Family-Unfriendly Nation

The War on Moms: On Life in a Family-Unfriendly Nation


Sharon Lerner



Review How employers make child-rearing an emotional and financial burden for womenThe joy of having a baby quickly morph...
Opting Out?: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home

Opting Out?: Why Women Really Quit Careers and Head Home


Pamela Stone



From Publishers Weekly Opting out," "off-ramping" and "following the mommy track" are all popular terms to describe profe...
Wander Woman: How High-Achieving Women Find Contentment and Direction

Wander Woman: How High-Achieving Women Find Contentment and Direction


Marcia Reynolds



Review Wander Woman is the first book for accomplished women tortured by the endless pursuit of  "outstanding." This...
S.K.I.R.T.S in the Boardroom: A Woman's Survival Guide to Success in Business and Life

S.K.I.R.T.S in the Boardroom: A Woman's Survival Guide to Success in Business and Life


Marshawn Evans Jd



Review Sisterhood, Knowledge, Integrity, Respect, Tenacity and Substance = SKIRTS. Marshawn's all-woman entrepreneurial t...
Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur (Black Americans of Achievement)

Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur (Black Americans of Achievement)


A'Lelia Bundles



Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur (Black Americans of Achievement)...
Women at Work: An Economic Perspective (Rodolfo De Benedetti Lecture Series)

Women at Work: An Economic Perspective (Rodolfo De Benedetti Lecture Series)


Daniela Del Boca, Christopher Pissarides, Tito Boeri



About the Author Tito Boeri is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, Milan and Director of the Fondazione Rodolfo...
Leading with Care: How Women Around the World are Inspiring Businesses, Empowering Communities, and Creating Opportunity

Leading with Care: How Women Around the World are Inspiring Businesses, Empowering Communities, and Creating Opportunity


Mary Cantando



From the Inside Flap A Dynamic Look At How Women Around The World Are Creating Change And Opportunity Through Business. Co...
The Psychology of Women at Work Three Volumes : Challenges and Solutions for Our Female Workforce (Women's Psychology)

The Psychology of Women at Work Three Volumes : Challenges and Solutions for Our Female Workforce (Women's Psychology)


Michele A. Paludi



Review "..Contributors address a wide range of topics, but two --sexual harassment and leadership--receive the most coverag...
Kimono in the Boardroom: The Invisible Evolution of Japanese Women Managers

Kimono in the Boardroom: The Invisible Evolution of Japanese Women Managers


Jean R. Renshaw



From The bursting of Japan's so-called economic bubble has invalidated the long-held assumption of guaranteed lifelong e...
Secrets of Six-Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to Up Your Earnings and Change Your Life

Secrets of Six-Figure Women: Surprising Strategies to Up Your Earnings and Change Your Life


Barbara Stanny



Amazon.com Review There are more high-salaried women in the workforce today than ever before, yet most females remain ser...
Job Queues Gender Queues (Women In The Political Economy)

Job Queues Gender Queues (Women In The Political Economy)


Barbara Reskin



Review "Even in the wake of feminism's ebullient 'second wave,' women routinely and almost universally get a raw deal in ...
Women of Wine: The Rise of Women in the Global Wine Industry

Women of Wine: The Rise of Women in the Global Wine Industry


Ann B. Matasar



Review "A thorough treatise. . . . The portraits reveal a great deal about the challenges women face in the industry."--G...