New Soft War on Women by Caryl Rivers
For the first time in history, women make up half the educated labor force and are earning the majority of advanced degrees. It should be the best time ever for women, and yet. it's not. Storm clouds are gathering, and the worst thing is that most women don't have a clue what could be coming. In large part this is because the message they're being fed is that they now have it made. But do they? In The New Soft War on Women, respected experts on gender issues and the psychology of women Caryl Rivers and Rosalind C. Barnett argue that an insidious war of subtle biases and barriers is being waged that continues to marginalize women. Although women have made huge strides in recent years, these gains have not translated into money and influence. Consider the following: - Women with MBAs earn, on average, $4,600 less than their male counterparts in their first job out of business school. - Female physicians earn, on average, 39 percent less than male physicians. - Female financial analysts take in 35 percent less, and female chief executives one quarter less than men in similar positions.In this eye-opening book, Rivers and Barnett offer women the real facts as well as tools for combating the soft war tactics that prevent them from advancing in their careers. With women now central to the economy, determining to a large degree whether it thrives or stagnates, this is one war no one can afford for them to lose.
Rosalind C. Barnett, Ph.D, has done pioneering research on workplace issues and family life in America, sponsored by major federal grants. She is senior scientist at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. Rosalind is a 2013 recipient of the Families and Work Institutes' Work Life Legacy Award. She is the recipient of several national awards including the Radcliffe College Graduate Society's Distinguished Achievement Medal, the Harvard University Graduate School's Ann Rowe award for outstanding contribution to women's education, the American Personnel and Guidance Association's Annual Award for Outstanding Research, and the Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government's 1999 Goldsmith Research Award. Alone and with others, she has published over 115 articles, 37 chapters, and ten books. She has directed major research projects for the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Mental Health, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and others. Caryl Rivers is a nationally known author and journalist. She was awarded the Helen Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007 from the Society of Professional Journalists for distinguished achievement in Journalism. She is a professor of Journalism at Boston University. Professor Rivers received the Gannett Freedom Forum Journalism Grant for research on media, the Goldsmith Research Grant, from the Shorenstein Center at the JFK School of Government, Harvard University, for research on gender and media issues, and the Massachusetts Foundation For The Humanities Media Studies Grant to research the ways in which gender, race and class affect news coverage.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780399163333 |
| ISBN 10 | 0399163336 |
| Title | New Soft War on Women |
| Author | Caryl Rivers |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Tarcher/Putnam,US |
| Year published | 2013-10-17 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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