The Glass Ceiling Delusion (the Real Reasons More Women Don't Reach Senior Positions) - Couverture souple

Buchanan, Mike

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0956641660 ISBN 13 : 9780956641663

Editeur : LPS Publishing, 2011

Synopsis

Women are right. There SHOULD be more women in senior positions and in the boardroom. But they need to recognise the implications of a simple reality: individuals are promoted to senior positions, not groups. So why are many women seeking to progress collectively through gender equality initiatives rather than through their individual merits? Talented women who reach the boardroom typically find such initiatives patronising. Some widely-held assertions about the genders in the workplace: - women's progression into the upper levels of organisations has long been hampered by overt and covert discrimination against women exercised by the men (and sometimes the women) already holding senior positions - the 'glass ceiling' - men aren't more likely than women to have qualities which make them fit for senior positions. Women, conversely, are more likely than men to have such qualities, including higher emotional intelligence, consensual decision-making styles... - more women would seek advancement if they felt inspired by more role models (but who will be the role models' role models?) A former business executive with over 30 years' experience in major corporations and business consultancy critiques 30 assertions about men and women generally and in the workplace - including 'the glass ceiling' - and finds them all to be variously delusions, fantasies, lies or myths. He reveals the real reasons why more women don't reach senior positions. More gender equality will result when more hardworking talented women recognise that to progress they will have to do so individually, not collectively. How hard can that be? Harder than beating the drum for gender equality initiatives, certainly, but possibly more effective too? Corporations pursuing gender equality initiatives are engaging in a social engineering experiment which could prove ruinous both for them and for society at large. Militant feminists - a small but vocal band of angry women embracing a Marxist ideology, as the book explains - are behind campaigns for gender balance among senior executives. Why are corporations trying to placate a small band of angry Marxists? The book reviews the state of gender equality legislation in the United Kingdom where David Cameron, a Conservative prime minister and head of a coalition government with the Liberal Democrats, has enacted 90% of The Equality Bill (2010). The Bill was the crowning glory of the career of Harriet Harman, a militant feminist Labour politician.

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À propos de l?auteur

Mike Buchanan, 53, is a British writer of eight books published since 2008. Before taking early retirement in 2010 at the age of 52 to focus on writing full-time, he had been an executive with major corporations for over 30 years. His books are, in reverse chronological order: THE GLASS CEILING DELUSION (the REAL reasons more women don't reach senior positions) DAVID AND GOLIATHA: David Cameron - heir to Harman? THE JOY OF SELF-PUBLISHING THE MARRIAGE DELUSION: the fraud of the rings? (hardback) THE FRAUD OF THE RINGS (paperback edition of THE MARRIAGE DELUSION) BUCHANAN'S DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS for right-minded people BUCHANAN'S DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS for right-minded Americans TWO MEN IN A CAR (a businessman, a chauffeur, and their holidays in France) GUITAR GODS IN BEDS. (Bedfordshire: a heavenly county) PROFITABLE BUYING STRATEGIES (How to cut procurement costs and buy your way to higher profits)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: LPS Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0956641660
• ISBN 13: 9780956641663
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible