There are relatively few women in senior executive positions and on the boards of major companies. Based upon research and in the context of contemporary management debates the authors argue the business case for promoting women to these positions in order to create more value for shareholders. The book draws upon interviews with chairpersons and chief executives and includes case study material.
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Peninah Thomson is a senior executive coach and a Director of The Change Partnership. Jacey Graham is Managing Partner of Brook Graham LLP.
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In-depth report on gender imbalance on corporate boards of directors,
This review is from: A Woman's Place is in the Boardroom: The Business Case (Hardcover)
The numbers are revealing: Women held only 14% of US directorships in 2003 and only 10% of UK corporate board seats a year later. Why does such a dearth of distaff board members prevail when a vast majority of women hold jobs, make most major home and business purchases, and outnumber men in attaining university degrees? Is this imbalance due to the male-oriented corporate culture, child rearing issues, biased recruitment and promotion policies, all of the above or something else entirely? Consultants Peninah Thomson and Jacey Graham thoroughly explore this issue, examining the reasons why the gap exists, why companies would be healthier with a greater female board representation and what firms can do about it. They also detail how they formed the "Financial Times/Stock Exchange (FTSE) 100 Cross-Company Mentoring Program" as one solution to the problem. The book's conversational flow makes up for its repetition and lack of synthesized information. getAbstract suggests it to all executives who seek balanced corporate governance and particularly to women who aspire to directorships.
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A PC-free view of the path to the Boardroom,
By S. J. Wilshaw-Sparkes "Sarah Wilshaw-Sparkes" (Auckland, New Zealand) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)
This review is from: A Woman's Place is in the Boardroom: The Business Case (Hardcover)
This book is about how and why there are so few women in Boardrooms and senior teams in the big companies and what can be done about it. In the process, it also sets out the business case for why Board Chairs, CEOs and their shareholders should care.
The authors use international research on women's progress to outline the opportunity. They then colour it in vibrantly with interviews with FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 Chairmen and CEOs, senior women and Board Directors, and headhunters. There are three good reasons to read this book: 1. The interviewees, speaking anonymously, tell it like it is, in PC-free terms: the Boys Club... the Queen Bee syndrome... 2. It lists specific pipeline-priming actions that women and employers can take 3. The cartoons are excellent! The book canvasses opinions from gatekeepers for board positions. One such group is the "Kings": highly influential males in the largest firms. Another group is headhunters. They deny looking only for Anglo-Saxon male candidates who have run large businesses. They point to the `third sector' boards (NFPs, charities etc) and to academia, both of which are hiring pools they consider. Another valuable perspective comes from women in the "marzipan" layer - that's the one just below the board. They said the key factors hindering women's advancement were mostly cultural issues and women's own shortcomings - not flexibility and childcare. One critical intervention is to change the culture. The authors provide a painful list of micro-inequities - the little unfair actions that, singly, are not worth making a fuss about, but that add up to an alienating environment for ambitious women. Simply being able to put a name to such discourtesies, however, helps everyone express and address them. The book makes a great read both for more senior women who aspire to Board positions, and also to younger women, helping them confront "issues and barriers of which they as yet have no inkling." It was affirming to find a book full of the issues we talk and write about at Professionelle.co.nz.
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