Today there are more women in executive and managerial positions than ever before, bringing increasing opportunities to impact major business arenas-- and overcome longstanding gender biases. Exploring a wide range of issues from the unique strengths women bring to the workplace to the state of the proverbial "glass ceiling" this guide illuminates the most important factors affecting a powerful and growing sector of the workplace.

Off-Ramps and On-Ramps:

Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success

SYLVIA ANN HEWLETT AND CAROLYN BUCK LUCE

The New Road to the Top 

PETER CAPPELLI AND MONIKA HAMORI

Winning the Talent War for Women:

Sometimes It Takes a Revolution 

DOUGLAS M. MCCRACKEN

A Modest Manifesto for Shattering the

Glass Ceiling 

DEBRA E, MEYERSON AND JOYCE K. FLETCHER

Work and Life:

The End of the Zero-Sum Game 

STEWART D. FRIEDMAN, PERRY CHRISTENSEN, AND

JESSICA DEGROOT

Making Differences Matter:

A New Paradigm for Managing Diversity 

DAVID A. THOMAS AND ROBIN J. ELY

Women as a Business Imperative 

FELICE N. SCHWARTZ

Ways Women Lead 

JUDY B. ROSENER

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