No Seat at the Table : How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom / Douglas M. Branson.
Branson, Douglas M., author.
2006
HD6054.4.U6 B73 2007
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Title
No Seat at the Table : How Corporate Governance and Law Keep Women Out of the Boardroom / Douglas M. Branson.
Author
Branson, Douglas M., author.
ISBN
9780814739266
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814739266.001.0001
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2006]
Copyright
©2006
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814739266.001.0001 doi
Call Number
HD6054.4.U6 B73 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
331.4/81658400973
Summary
Women are completing MBA and Law degrees in record high numbers, but their struggle to attain director positions in corporate America continues. Although explanations for this disconnect abound, neither career counselors nor scholars have paid enough attention to the role that corporate governance plays in maintaining the gender gap in America's executive quarters.Mining corporate governance models applied at Fortune 500 companies, hundreds of Title VII discrimination cases, and proxy statements, Douglas M. Branson suggests that women have been ill-advised by experts, who tend to teach females how to act like their male, executive counterparts. Instead, women who aspire to the boardroom should focus on the decision-making processes nominating committees-usually dominated by white men-employ when voting on membership.Filled with real-life cases, No Seat at the Table opens the closed doors of the boardroom and reveals the dynamics of the corporate governance process and the double standards that often characterize it. Based on empirical evidence, Branson concludes that women have to follow different paths than men in order to gain CEO status, and as such, encourages women to make flexible, conscious, and often frequent shifts in their professional behaviors and work ethics as they climb the corporate ladder.
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Critical America ; ; 26
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New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
part I. Glass Ceilings, Floors, and Walls
1. Restraints on Advancement
2. Glass Ceilings and Floors
3. Prices of Motherhood
4. In a Different Register
5. Bully Broads, Iron Maidens, Queen Bees, and Ice Queens
part II. Climbing the Corporate Ladder
6. Routes to the Top
7. The Road to the Top
8. The 2005 Proxy Data
9. Women and Minorities in Organizations
part III. Corporate Governance and the Keeper of the Keys to the Boardroom
10. Corporate Governance in America
11. Women, Culture, and the U.S. Model of Corporate Governance
12. Women in Corporate Governance
part IV. Getting a Seat at the Boardroom Table
13. Paradigm Shifts
14. Prescriptions
Appendix A
Appendix B
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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