Dimensions
152 x 229 x 24mm
Subtitle: How Embracing Differences in the Workplace Will Strengthen Your Company and Improve its Value
Since the 1970s, governments have been legislating for gender equality and organizations have complied with policies, programs, and annual goals-from recruitment, to pay equity, to the required percentage of women in senior management and on boards. Yet, after forty years of laws, quotas, diversity training, and legal expenses, there's been no appreciable change in the level and impact of women in leadership. The glass ceiling-that invisible upper limit-remains, with few comprehensive explanations and even fewer meaningful solutions.
For too long, companies have played the "numbers game"-attempting to tackle the problem of gender imbalance by forcing affirmative action policies and numeric standards on organizations in order to increase the representation of women in management, but these efforts are rarely sustained. GENDER INTELLIGENCE reveals for the first time the powerful principles upon which this wave of change is based. Barbara Annis and Keith Marron reveal a deep understanding of the multiplicity of forces that form together to create the current condition of gender inequality. They show how a small but growing number of courageous, leading-edge companies have been able to break through the barriers to women advancing in leadership. They have made the remarkable transformation from compliance to choice-from pressure to preference, and show how it can be done in your business.
