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Books

Advancing Women in Business: The Catalyst Guide. Jossey-Bass. 1998.

Balancing Act: How Managers Can Integrate Successful Careers and Fulfilling Personal Lives. Joan Kofodimos. Jossey-Bass. 1993.

Be Your Own Mentor: Strategies from Top Women on the Secrets of Success. Sheila Wellington. Random House. 2001.

Breakthrough: Women into Management. Rosalind Loringand Theodora Wells. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. 1972.

The Briles Report on Women in Healthcare: Changing Conflict to Collaboration in a Toxic Workplace. Judith Briles. Jossey-Bass. 1994.

Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Can Women Reach the Top of America's Largest Corporations? Updated edition. Addison-Wesley. 1992.

Caught in the Middle; How to Survive and Thrive in Today's Management Squeeze. Lynda C. McDermott. Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1992.

Company Manners: How to Behave in the Workplace in the 90s. Lois Wyse. Crown Trade Paperbacks. 1992.

Designing and Managing Your Career. Harvard Business School Press. 1989.

Do's and Taboos Around the World for Women in Business. Roger E. Axtell. John Wiley & Sons. 1997.

The Executive Suite--Feminine Style. Edith M.Lynch. AMACOM/American Management Associations. 1973.

Games Mother Never Taught You: Corporate Gamesmanship for Women. Betty Lehan Harragan. Warner. 1977.

Gender Differences in the Development of Managers: How Women Managers Learn from Experience. Technical Report #145 from the Center for Creative Leadership. 1990.

Genderflex: Men & Women Speaking Each Other's Language at Work. Judith C.Tingley. AMACOM/American Management Associations. 1994.

Gendertraps: Conquering Confrontophobia, Toxic Bosses, & Other Landmines at Work. Judith Briles. McGraw-Hill. 1996.

Getting It Right: How Working Mothers Successfully Take Up the Challenge of Life, Family, and Career. Laraine T. Zappert. Pocket Books. 2001.

Hardball for Women: Winning at the Game of Business. Pat Heim. Lowell House/RGA Publishing Group. 1992.

How to Say It for Women: Communicating with Confidence and Power Using the Language of Success. Phyllis Mindell. Prentice Hall Press. 2001.

I Used to Have a Handle on Life But It Broke: Six Power Solutions for Women With Too Much to Do. Mary Loverde. Simon & Schuster. 2002.

In the Company of Women: Indirect Aggression among Women: Why We Hurt Each Other and How to Stop? Pat Heim and Susan A. Murphy with Susan K. Golant. Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam. 2003.

The Intuitive Businesswoman: Achieve Success Through the Power of Your Personality. Judy George and Todd Lyon. Clarkson Potter Publishers. 2000.

Learning from Other Women: How to Benefit from the Knowledge, Wisdom, and Experience of Female Mentors. Carolyn S. Duff. AMACOM. 1999.

The Male Mind at Work: A Woman's Guide to Working with Men. Deborah Swiss. Perseus. 2000.

Managerial Values in Perspective. Warren H. Schmidt. An AMA SURVEY REPORT. American Management Associations, 1983.

The Managerial Woman
. Margaret Hennig and Anne Jardim. Pocket Books. 1978.

Megatrends for Women. Patricia Aburdene and John Naisbitt. Villard Books. 1992.

Moving Up! Moving Up! Moving Up! Women and Leadership. Lois Borland Hart. AMACOM/American Management Associations. 1980.

Negotiating for Your Life: New Success Strategies for Women. Nicole Schapiro. Henry Holt and Company. 1993.

The New Leaders: Leadership Diversity in America. Ann M. Morrison. Jossey-Bass. 1996.

Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success. Sylvia Ann Hewlett. Harvard Business School Press. 2007.

Our Separate Ways: Black and White Women and the Struggle for Professional Identity. Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell and Stella M. Nkomo. Harvard Business School Press. 2001.

Paths to Power; A Woman's Guide from First Job to Top Executive. Natasha Josefowitz. Addison-Wesley. 1980.

Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman: What Men Know About Success That Women Need to Learn. Gail Evans. Broadway Books. 2000.

Power Tools for Women: Plugging into the Essential Skills for Work and Life. Joni T. Daniels. Three Rivers Press. 2002.

The Psychology of Winning for Women: What Every Woman Needs to Know - What Every Man Needs to Understand. Denis Waitley, Deborah Waitley, and Dayna Waitley. Executive Excellence. 1999.

Reach for the Top: Women and the Changing Facts of Work Life. Edited by Nancy A. Nichols. Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation. 1994.

A Report on the Glass Ceiling Initiative. Lynn Martin. U.S. Department of Labor, 1991.

The Shadow Negotiation: How Women Can Master the Hidden Agendas That Determine Bargaining Success
. Deborah M. Kolb and Judith Williams. Simon & Schuster. 2000.

She Who Dares Wins
. Eileen Gillibrand & Jenny Mosley. Thorsons. 1995.

Soul in the Computer. Barbara Waugh with Margot Silk Forrest. Inner Ocean. 2001.

Swim with the Dolphins; How Women Can Succeed in Corporate America on Their Own Terms. Warner Books. 1995.

Through the Labyrinth: The Truth about How Women Become Leaders. Alice H. Eagly and Linda L. Carli. Harvard Business School Press. 2007.

Understanding Your Management Style; Beyond the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
s. Robert Benfari. Lexington Books/D.C. Heath and Company. 1991.

When the Executive is a Woman. Edited by Eliza G.C. Collins. Harvard Business Review. 1982.

Why the Best Man for the Job is a Woman: The Unique Female Qualities of Leadership. Esther Wachs Book. HarperBusiness. 2000.

Women and Leadership in Health Care. Catherine Robinson-Walker. Jossey Bass. 1999.

Women at Work: Leadership for the Next Century. Dayle Smith. Prentice Hall. 2000.

Women Don't Ask:  Negotiation and the Gender Divide.  Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever.  Princeton University Press.  2003.

Women in Management: Trends, Issues, and Challenges in Managerial Diversity. Edited by Ellen A. Fagenson. Sage Publications, Inc. 1993.

Women of Influence, Women of Vision: A Cross-Generational Study of Leaders and Social Change. Helen S. Astin and Carole Leland. Jossey-Bass. 1991.

The Woman Manager: Developing Essential Skills for Success. Connie Sitterly. Crisp. 1993.

Women's Work, Men's Work: Sex Segregation on the Job. Barbara F. Reskin and Heidi I. Hartmann. National Academy Press. 1986.

Working Woman's Communications Survival Guide: How to Present Your Ideas with Impact, Clarity and Power and Get the Recognition Your Deserve. Ruth Herrman Siress with Carolyn Riddle and Devorah Shouse. Prentice Hall. 1994.

The Working Woman's Guide to Managing Stress
. J. Robin Powell. Prentice-Hall. 1994.


Videos

He Said, She Said: Gender, Language, Communication. With Deborah Tannen. A 55-minute video program with guide. 2000. Into the Classroom Media.

Synopsis: Live video presentation of Deborah Tannen's seminal contributions to the understanding of gender, language and communication. Produced, edited and paced for curricular use in communication, linguistics, psychology, sociology and other social sciences classes.

Invisible Rules: Men, Women and Teams. With Pat Heim. A 34-minute video program with guide. 1996. CorVision Media.

Synopsis: Examines how men and women behave and communicate differently because they are raised in two separate gender cultures;examines some of the 'invisible rules' each gender culture uses to define appropriate adult behavior; explains how gender cultures can clash in the context of leader/subordinate and team communications; teaches how to improve team communication between men and women instead of placing the blame on either gender.

Management and Leadership Skills for Women; Solutions for the Special Challenges of Being a Woman in Management. With Susan Dellinger. A 244-minute video seminar with a guide. 1991. CareerTrack.

Synopsis: Volume 1) the key difference between "management" and "leadership;" the five best/worst leader traits; how you rate; how good are you at motivating others--a quick 10-question quiz; what you need to know about outdated leadership stereotypes; "Psycho-Geometrics"--an innovative approach for analyzing each team member's strengths and weaknesses; a revealing way to assess your commitment to being a manager. Volume 2) how to get people to accept an unpopular but necessary policy; six ways to avoid a new recruit disaster; how to help employees who have trouble adapting to change; performance appraisals: how to turn a dreaded task into a productive, cooperative exercise; delegation without guilt: getting over your habit of wanting to do everything yourself; why conducting a reverse performance appraisal could be the smartest thing you ever do for your management career. Volume 3) the 10-point program for building a team that thrives on challenge; how to handle former peers who are jealous of your success; what to say if a friend requests special treatment; how to manage employees who are older than you; managing men: what you can learn from successful women managers; the six Action Steps to leadership; why there has never been a better time for women to succeed as managers and leaders.

Power Dead-Even Rule: and Other Gender Differences. With Pat Heim. A 36-minute video with guide. 1995. CorVision Media.

Synopsis: Promotes the understanding that men and women behave and communicate differently because they are raised in two separate gender cultures; examines the internal 'rules' each gender culture uses to define appropriate adult behavior; examines how gender cultures can clash in the context of typical workplace communication.

She Said, He Said. With Pat Heim. An 86-minute video program. 1992. AONE/American Organization of Nurse Executives.

Synopsis: Male/female differences and societal perceptions of such that affect female leadership styles.


The list of resources on this page is not intended to be complete or comprehensive. The selected resources included are representative of the subject area covered and are an excellent starting point for further research. Additional print and electronic information can be found by conducting your own literature search, consulting other library collections, or contacting a professional librarian/informationist for assistance. Please check with your local library to determine availability of these resources and local library access to national interlibrary loan networks for resources not owned locally. The list of resources is updated regularly as new resources are identified by the Mayo Clinic Libraries, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.

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