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Reach for the Top examines the challenges, frustrations, and opportunities facing todays professional women: gender stereotypes and the conflicts they create, the glass ceiling, sexual harassment, discrimination, and work/family pressures. Featuring case studies, essays by leading analysts (including Judith Rosener and Felice Schwartz), and inspiring first-person accounts, these twelve Harvard Business Review articles provide a fresh look at the issues women face at work. This book is a valuable resource for managers trying to understand the dynamics of gender in the organization, as well as an invaluable tool for women making their way up the corporate ladder.

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title:Reach for the Top : Women and the Changing Facts of Work Life Harvard Business Review Book Series
author:Nichols, Nancy A.
publisher:Harvard Business School Press
isbn10 | asin:0875847390
print isbn13:9780875847399
ebook isbn13:9780585258034
language:English
subjectWomen executives--United States, Sex role in the work environment--United States, Sex discrimination in employment--United States, Women--Employment--United States.
publication date:1996
lcc:HD6054.4.U6R43 1994eb
ddc:331.4/0973
subject:Women executives--United States, Sex role in the work environment--United States, Sex discrimination in employment--United States, Women--Employment--United States.
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Reach for the Top
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The Harvard Business Review Book Series
Designing and Managing Your Career,
Edited by Harry Levinson
Ethics in Practice: Managing the Moral Corporation,
Edited with an Introduction by Kenneth R. Andrews
Managing Projects and Programs,
With a Preface by Norman R. Augustine
Manage People, Not Personnel: Motivation and Performance Appraisal,
With a Preface by Victor H. Vroom
Revolution in Real Time: Managing Information Technology in the 1990s,
With a Preface by William G. McGowan
Strategy: Seeking and Securing Competitive Advantage,
Edited with an Introduction by Cynthia A. Montgomery and Michael E. Porter
Leaders on Leadership: Interviews with Top Executives,
Edited with a Preface by Warren Bennis
Seeking Customers,
Edited with an Introduction by Benson P. Shapiro and John J. Sviokla
Keeping Customers,
Edited with an Introduction by John J. Sviokla and Benson P. Shapiro
The Learning Imperative: Managing People for Continuous Innovation,
Edited with an Introduction by Robert Howard
The Articulate Executive: Orchestrating Effective Communication,
With a Preface by Fernando Bartolom
Differences that Work: Organizational Excellence through Diversity,
Edited with an Introduction by Mary C. Gentile
Reach for the Top: Women and the Changing Facts of Work Life,
Edited with an Introduction by Nancy A. Nichols
Global Strategies: Insights from the World's Leading Thinkers,
With a Preface by Percy Barnevik
Command Performance: The Art of Delivering Quality Service,
With a Preface by John E. Martin
Manufacturing Renaissance,
Edited with an Introduction by Gary P. Pisano and Robert H. Hayes
The Product Development Challenge: Competing through Speed, Quality, and Creativity,
Edited with an Introduction by Kim B. Clark and Steven C. Wheelwright
The Evolving Global Economy: Making Sense of the New World Order,
Edited with a Preface by Kenichi Ohmae
Managerial Excellence: McKinsey Award Winners from the Harvard Business Review, 1980-1994,
Foreword by Rajat Gupta, Preface by Nan Stone
Fast Forward: The Best Ideas on Managing Business Change,
Edited with an Introduction and Epilogue by James Champy and Nitin Nohria
First Person: Tales of Management Courage and Tenacity,
Edited with an Introduction by Thomas Teal
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Reach for the Top
Women and the Changing Facts of Work Life
Edited with
an Introduction by
Nancy A. Nichols
Foreword by
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
A Harvard Business Review Book
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Published by the Harvard Business School Press in hardcover, 1994; in paperback, 1996
Copyright 1977, 1982, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Printed in the United States of America
00 99 98 97 96 5 4 3 2 1 (pbk)
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior written permission of the copyright holder.
The Harvard Business Review articles in this collection are available as individual reprints. Discounts apply to quantity purchases. For information and ordering contact Operations Department, Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation, Boston, MA 02163. Telephone: (617) 495-6192, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday. Fax: (617) 495-6985, 24 hours a day.
The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Reach for the top: women and the changing facts of work life/edited with
an introduction by Nancy A. Nichols : foreword by Rosabeth Moss Kanter.
p. cm. (A Harvard business review book)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87584-507-X (alk. paper) (HC)
ISBN 0-87584-739-0 (pbk)
1. Women executivesUnited States. 2. Sex role in the work
environmentUnited States. 3. Sex discrimination in employmentUnited
States. 4. WomenEmploymentUnited States. I. Nichols, Nancy A.,
1959- . II. Series: Harvard business review book series.
HD6054.4.U6R43 1994
331.4'0973dc20 93-34718
CIP
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CONTENTS
Foreword
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
ix
Introduction
Nancy A. Nichols
xiii
Part I
Breaking the Double Bind
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