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"Bringing together 30 experts and replete with facts, figures and analysis, this important book provides a genuinely cross cultural assessment of women's progress in management throughout the world." "By providing benchmark data, examples of best practice, and trend analysis, this volume is the essential sourcebook for everyone concerned about the progress of women in management within their own country and worldwide."--Jacket.
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"In stark contrast to popular belief, women of the African Diaspora have engaged in economic and leadership activities throughout the course of history. Black women around the world draw from a tradition of thousands of years of strategies that have enabled them to face and conquer the challenges of life as women of color. And yet today, black women are marginalized by an economic and financial community still dominated by white men. In Market Women,...
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Entries discuss the lives and careers of businesswomen and cite works for further reading. This set also includes roughly 100 interspersed entries on topics central to American businesswomen, including career planning, childcare, diversity, education, the finance industry, flexible work arrangements, golf and real estate.--from back cover.
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"Women in record numbers are breaking away from the constraints of corporate life to seek fulfillment in business on their own or in their own way. Careerpreneurs captures the voices of these pioneers - both those forging a path inside an organization and those out in the entrepreneurial limelight - who describe their strategies for success and the potential pitfalls. These women model the hallmarks of a self-managed career: portable skills and knowledge,...
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"This book documents the phenomenal growth of women-owned businesses in terms of the effects of globalization, the issue of female equality, and the context of women's empowerment. Coughlin profiles successful entrepreneurs, explaining how they got there, delineating their essential traits, revealing what kinds of businesses they start, and categorizing and explaining their economic and social motivations. The process of business formation is described,...
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"In Our Separate Ways, authors Ella Bell and Stella Nkomo take a look at the surprising differences between black and white women's trials and triumphs on their way up the executive ladder. Based on groundbreaking research that spanned eight years, Our Separate Ways compares and contrasts the experiences of 120 black and white female managers in the American business arena. In-depth histories bring to life the women's powerful and often difficult...
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"This volume provides some of the most comprehensive data to date on the topic of women entrepreneurs for understanding issues of network structures and human and financial capital, analyzed through a comparative analysis of minority and white women entrepreneurs." "Through a well-chosen sample, rich analysis and insightful accounts, Andrea E. Smith-Hunter details the challenges and opportunities faced by women entrepreneurs in today's marketplace....
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The stories of 11 American low-income women who started their own businesses as a way out of poverty echo an entrepreneurial trend that has been successful in developing countries. Writing for a general audience, Shirk (a journalist) and Wadia (a program director at the Ms. Foundation) provide profiles and photographs of the entrepreneurs, each of whom has received assistance from nonprofit business organizations associated with the Ms. Foundation...
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