HBR's 10 Must Reads on Women and Leaders

What will it take to create a more gender-balanced workplace?If you read nothing else on leadership and gender at work read these 10 articles by experts in the field. Weve combed through hundreds of articles in the Harvard Business Review archive and selected the most important ones to help you understand where gender equality is today--and how far we still have to go.This book will inspire you to:Better understand the path women must take to leadershipLearn the root causes of the barriers that exist for women in the workplaceCheck your own gender biases and distinguish between confidence and competence in your colleaguesManage a more effective gender-diversity programRecognize the issues women face when speaking up about bias or harassmentHelp women reenter the workforce after taking time off--and create opportunities for them to reach their ambitions.This collection of articles includes Women and the Labyrinth of Leadership by Alice H. Eagly and Linda L. Carli; Do Women Lack Ambition? by Anna Fels; Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers by Herminia Ibarra Robin Ely and Deborah Kolb; Women and the Vision Thing by Herminia Ibarra and Otilia Obodaru; The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why by Deborah Tannen; The Memo Every Woman Keeps in Her Desk by Kathleen Reardon; Why Diversity Programs Fail by Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev; Now What? by Joan C. Williams and Suzanne Lebsock; The Battle for Female Talent in Emerging Markets by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Ripa Rashid; Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce; and Sheryl Sandberg: The HBR Interview by Sheryl Sandberg and Adi Ignatius.