Hbr's 10 Must Reads on Women and Leadership (with Bonus Article Sheryl Sandberg: The HBR Interview)

<p><b>What will it take to create a more gender-balanced workplace?</b></p><p>If you read nothing else on leadership and gender at work read these 10 articles by experts in the field. We've combed through hundreds of articles in the <b>Harvard Business Review</b> archive and selected the most important ones to help you understand where gender equality is today--and how far we still have to go.</p><p><b>This book will inspire you to: </b><ul><li>Better understand the path women must take to leadership<li>Learn the root causes of the barriers that exist for women in the workplace<li>Check your own gender biases and distinguish between confidence and competence in your colleagues<li>Manage a more effective gender-diversity program<li>Recognize the issues women face when speaking up about bias or harassment<li>Help women reenter the workforce after taking time off--and create opportunities for them to reach their ambitions.</ul></p><p>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.</p>