Breaking Through the Stained Glass Ceiling

Breaking Through the Stained Glass Ceiling
Author: Maureen Fiedler
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2010-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1596271205

This collection of lively Q&A interviews with key contemporary female religious leaders focuses not only on the discrimination faced by women in religion, but documents the emerging leadership of women in several faith traditions.

Kick Some Glass (PB)

Kick Some Glass (PB)
Author: Jennifer W. Martineau
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2018-10-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1260121410

The rule-smashing guide for motivated working women who want to stop following someone else’s rules and take charge of their own success.You leaned in like a palm tree in a hurricane. You cracked the confidence code. You’re determined not to be a nice girl, but a #GirlBoss. You’ve learned you can’t have it all, but you still try anyway. You know all of this. You’ve read the books, downloaded the apps, vision boarded and journaled your way to oblivion and back, to no avail. Whether you’re stuck in middle management, stalled in mid-career, or mulling over a major career change, sometimes the proverbial glass ceiling feels very real indeed—a barrier keeping you from fulfilling your potential. Unlike other books, which focus on fixing you, Kick Some Glass empowers you to break through your glass ceiling and guides you toward understanding your context and uncovering what you really want, what your definition of success is, what your values are, and how to set the goals to reach your potential.This is no one-size-fits-all career guide. It’s a top-to-bottom, inside-out, do-it-yourself makeover with the focus completely on you. In each chapter, you’ll be asked to evaluate specific parts of your work life, home life, personal strengths and weaknesses, past history and present obstacles, both internal and external, so you can:•Live your intention and design a meaningful life at any stage•Identify the underlying values that are the core of your being•Get comfortable with your personal power and understand what it means•Uncover the conscious and subconscious mental models that are holding you back•Take calculated risks through planful action with a clear direction•Let go of things you cannot control or change•Become more resilient, adaptable, and self-aware•Make the choices and tradeoffs necessary to fulfill your goals•Decide if it’s time to reinvent your career—and prepare for your next move•Find that elusive work-life balance that’s right for you•Create your own definition of success—and make it happen for youBest of all, you’ll be able to map out a career course for yourself that is based on your own definition of success, play and win by your own rules, and pay it forward by busting down doors for the next generation of women.In the end, this book will help you uncover who you truly are and approach your professional life in ways that are authentic and most meaningful to you—and no one else. After all, only you hold the answers. It’s time to Kick Some Glass.

Breaking the Glass Ceiling Without Breaking Yourself

Breaking the Glass Ceiling Without Breaking Yourself
Author: Summers Boutwell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2019-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781948484749

Expectations are high for today's modern woman. Summers Boutwell shows how to achieve a life of success without sacrificing yourself or family. How? By living with intention and purpose.

Shattering the Glass Ceiling

Shattering the Glass Ceiling
Author: Gia Suggs
Publisher: Black Freighter Productions
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2017-05-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780983294931

Are you paying too high a price for your professional success? In Shattering the Glass Ceiling: How to Break Through Without Breaking Down, Human Performance Expert Dr. Gia Suggs and Executive Coach Hayward Suggs talk straight about the challenges career women face and how to overcome them without losing yourself in the process.

Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling

Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling
Author: Barbara Palmer
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2010-11-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1135891745

Why has the integration of women into Congress been so slow? Is there a "political glass ceiling" for women? Although women use the same strategic calculations as men to decide when to run, the decision regarding where to run is something else. While redistricting has increasingly protected incumbents, it also has the unintended consequence of shaping the opportunities for female candidates. The political geography and socio-economic profile of districts that elect women differ substantially from districts that elect men. With data on over 10,000 elections and 30,000 candidates from 1916 to the present, Palmer and Simon explore how strategy and the power of incumbency affect women’s decisions to run for office. Breaking the Political Glass Ceiling is the most comprehensive analysis of women in congressional elections available. The Second Edition is fully updated to reflect the pivotal 2006 mid-term elections, including Nancy Pelosi’s rise to Speaker of the House, Hillary Clinton’s bid for the presidency, and a record number of women serving as committee chairs. Additionally, the authors have created a website, found at politicsandwomen.com, to highlight key features of the book and provide updates throughout the election cycle.

Breaking Through Your Own Glass Ceiling

Breaking Through Your Own Glass Ceiling
Author: Linda González MSW MFA
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2020-07-21
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1984584359

Breaking Through Your Own Glass Ceiling offers simple, proven prosperity practices to address power dynamics faced by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) and other underrepresented communities. You can begin today to identify and uproot unhealthy patterns and replace them with consistent thoughts and behaviors to embrace a full-hearted life—even in environments that do not support your well-being. Many people attempt to navigate glass ceilings by reading self-help and motivational books that send the message that vision boards, meditation apps, and affirmations will compensate for exclusionary policies and laws. This book rejects the “one size fits all” approach to career development and self-care that leads people to internalize their own glass ceiling. If you are ready to have a full-hearted breakthrough, this book can be your daily guide and inspiration.

Breaking The Glass Ceiling

Breaking The Glass Ceiling
Author: Ann M Morrison
Publisher: Pearson Education
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1987-01-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780201157871

A groundbreaking study, the first ever, of women exectuvies in Fortune 100-sized companies.

Women Are Creating the Glass Ceiling and Have the Power to End It

Women Are Creating the Glass Ceiling and Have the Power to End It
Author: Nancy E. Parsons
Publisher: Hybrid Global Publishing
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2021-05-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1948181819

“I love the candor in Nancy Parsons’s Women Are Creating the Glass Ceiling and Have the Power to End It. It’s time to start having real conversations about the years of ineffective measures to break the glass ceiling, and Nancy Parsons’s data-driven approach to uncover its true root cause is the critical first step toward achieving actual change. Every executive team needs to read this book and rethink their current D&I initiatives. We simply can’t have another 40 years at this rate of progress. Nancy’s passionate, insightful words are igniting the right conversations and will help accelerate us to a place where the entire concept of the glass ceiling is obsolete.”

Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars

Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars
Author: Eileen M. Collins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2021-10-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1956763007

The long-awaited memoir of a trailblazer and role model who is telling her story for the first time. Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, from her crowning achievements as the first woman to command an American space mission as well as the first to pilot the space shuttle to her early years as one of the Air Force’s first female pilots. She was in the first class of women to earn pilot’s wings at Vance Air Force Base and was their first female instructor pilot. She was only the second woman pilot admitted to the Air Force’s elite Test Pilot Program at Edwards Air Force Base. NASA had such confidence in her skills as a leader and pilot that she was entrusted to command the first shuttle mission after the Columbia disaster, returning the US to spaceflight after a two-year hiatus. Since retiring from the Air Force and NASA, she has served on numerous corporate boards and is an inspirational speaker about space exploration and leadership. Eileen Collins is among the most recognized and admired women in the world, yet this is the first time she has told her story in a book. It is a story not only of achievement and overcoming obstacles but of profound personal transformation. The shy, quiet child of an alcoholic father and struggling single mother, who grew up in modest circumstances and was an unremarkable student, she had few prospects when she graduated from high school, but she changed her life to pursue her secret dream of becoming an astronaut. She shares her leadership and life lessons throughout the book with the aim of inspiring and passing on her legacy to a new generation.

Glass Half-Broken

Glass Half-Broken
Author: Colleen Ammerman
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2021-04-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1633695948

Why the gender gap persists and how we can close it. For years women have made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States. In 2019, the gap between the percentage of women and the percentage of men in the workforce was the smallest on record. But despite these statistics, women remain underrepresented in positions of power and status, with the highest-paying jobs the most gender-imbalanced. Even in fields where the numbers of men and women are roughly equal, or where women actually make up the majority, leadership ranks remain male-dominated. The persistence of these inequalities begs the question: Why haven't we made more progress? In Glass Half-Broken, Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg reveal the pervasive organizational obstacles and managerial actions—limited opportunities for development, lack of role models and sponsors, and bias in hiring, compensation, and promotion—that create gender imbalances. Bringing to light the key findings from the latest research in psychology, sociology, organizational behavior, and economics, Ammerman and Groysberg show that throughout their careers—from entry-level to mid-level to senior-level positions—women get pushed out of the leadership pipeline, each time for different reasons. Presenting organizational and managerial strategies designed to weaken and ultimately break down these barriers, Glass Half-Broken is the authoritative resource that managers and leaders at all levels can use to finally shatter the glass ceiling.