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When Did Everybody Else Get So Old? - Indignities, Compromises, and the Unexpected Grace of Midlife (Hardcover): Jennifer Grant When Did Everybody Else Get So Old? - Indignities, Compromises, and the Unexpected Grace of Midlife (Hardcover)
Jennifer Grant
R727 R607 Discovery Miles 6 070 Save R120 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Nice Girls Don't Get The Corner Office - Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers (Paperback): Lois P.... Nice Girls Don't Get The Corner Office - Unconscious Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers (Paperback)
Lois P. Frankel 4
R250 R200 Discovery Miles 2 000 Save R50 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The New York Times bestseller, which has become a must-have for women in business, is now revised and updated in celebration of its 10th anniversary.

Internationally recognized executive coach Dr. Lois P. Frankel teacher women how to eliminate unconscious mistakes that could be holding them back, and gives invaluable coaching tips that can easily be incorporated into social and business skills. The results are career opportunities women never thought possible and the power and know-how to occupy the corner office!

Stop making "nice girl" mistakes such as:

  • Mistake #13: Avoiding office politics (if you don't play the game, you can't possibly win)
  • Mistake #21: Multi-tasking (just because you CAN do something, doesn't mean you SHOULD)
  • Mistake #54: Failure to negotiate (don't equate negotiation with confrontation)
  • Mistake #70: Inappropriate use of social media (once it's out there, it's hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube)
  • Mistake #82: Asking permission (children, not adults, ask for approval. be direct, be confident!)

These and other behaviors are why NICE GIRLS DON'T GET THE CORNER OFFICE.

Fighting Words Devotional (Hardcover): Ellie Holcomb Fighting Words Devotional (Hardcover)
Ellie Holcomb
R514 R437 Discovery Miles 4 370 Save R77 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Research Handbook of Women's Entrepreneurship and Value Creation (Hardcover): Shumaila Yousafzai, Colette Henry, Monique... Research Handbook of Women's Entrepreneurship and Value Creation (Hardcover)
Shumaila Yousafzai, Colette Henry, Monique Boddington, Shandana Sheikh, Alain Fayolle
R4,616 Discovery Miles 46 160 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This Research Handbook highlights the importance of women as agents of change, acknowledging women entrepreneurs' efforts and supporting their value-creation activities. With important implications for policymaking, contributing authors direct attention to and provide evidence for the positive contribution of women entrepreneurs to the economy, regardless of their businesses' size and formal status. Challenging the underperformance hypothesis associated with women entrepreneurs, chapters present evidence that women do not underperform in their businesses, but that they add value even in constrained environments. This intends to shift the focus of research from questions like 'what do entrepreneurs do?' to 'how do they do it?', focusing on the unique ways in which each woman entrepreneur creates value, and 'for whom do they do it?', looking at the multiple value outcomes women entrepreneurs create and the beneficiaries of that value. With a global perspective on women's entrepreneurship and their value creation, this Research Handbook will be vital reading for researchers of entrepreneurship, as well as government agencies and policymakers interested in promoting entrepreneurial activity.

Release Your Inner Lioness - Empowering Quotes from Kick-ass Women in Sport: Crush Your Goals, Celebrate Your Strength and Live... Release Your Inner Lioness - Empowering Quotes from Kick-ass Women in Sport: Crush Your Goals, Celebrate Your Strength and Live Life to the Full (Hardcover)
Harriet Dyer
R156 Discovery Miles 1 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Supercharge your game and claim your victory with this powerful collection of uplifting words from kickass women in sport Inside every woman is a lioness just waiting to break free. This feisty feline is independent, brave, strong and agile. She is ready to acknowledge and shout about her power. She wants to crush her goals. She believes she deserves to live her life courageously and to the full. All she needs is for you to open your heart and set her free. This small-but-mighty book is the perfect companion on your journey to attaining the unshakeable confidence of a lioness. Inside you'll find empowering quotes from sporting legends all the way from Billie Jean King right up to Leah Williamson. Let these bold words from badass women inspire you to find your pride of supportive sisters, reach for your dreams, and celebrate every success along the way. Stay fierce and fearless - unleash your inner lioness and hear her roar!

What's Her Name - A History Of The World In 80 Lost Women (Hardcover): Katie Nelson, Olivia Meikle, What'sHerName... What's Her Name - A History Of The World In 80 Lost Women (Hardcover)
Katie Nelson, Olivia Meikle, What'sHerName Podcast
R495 R396 Discovery Miles 3 960 Save R99 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Journey through thousands of years of human history (now with the women put back in).

From the earliest human civilizations through to the present day, the stories of countless influential women – leaders, artists, warriors, scientists and more – have been ignored, forgotten, or actively suppressed. You may not have encountered the likes of Fatima al-Fihri (an Islamic World visionary who founded the world's first university), Ching Shih (the most successful pirate in history), or Huda Sha'arawi (a pioneering Egyptian feminist leader, suffragist, nationalist, and founder of the Egyptian Feminist Union), but that's about to change.

In What’s Her Name: A History of the World in 80 Lost Women, authors – and sisters – Olivia Meikle and Katie Nelson weave together the captivating stories of these fascinating figures to tell an alternative, enthralling and deeply researched historical narrative. A truly global history, What’s Her Name features biographies of incredible women spanning six continents and thousands of years, from Ancient Egypt and the Roman Empire to imperial China, the Americas and post-war Europe.

Drawing on years of study and interviews with dozens of experts, this is an entertaining, thought-provoking look at the trailblazing women you may not have heard of (but should have).

Determined - Women's Bible Study Participant Workbook (Paperback): Heather M Dixon Determined - Women's Bible Study Participant Workbook (Paperback)
Heather M Dixon
R460 R391 Discovery Miles 3 910 Save R69 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Once I Was You - A Memoir (Paperback): Maria Hinojosa Once I Was You - A Memoir (Paperback)
Maria Hinojosa
R477 R402 Discovery Miles 4 020 Save R75 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Captive of the Labyrinth - Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune (Paperback, Revised and Updated Edition): Mary Jo... Captive of the Labyrinth - Sarah L. Winchester, Heiress to the Rifle Fortune (Paperback, Revised and Updated Edition)
Mary Jo Ignoffo
R709 R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Save R109 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Captive of the Labyrinth is reissued here to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of rifle heiress Sarah L. Winchester in 1922. After inheriting a vast fortune upon the death of her husband in 1881, Winchester purchased a simple farmhouse in San JosE, California. She built additions to the house and continued construction for the next twenty years. When neighbors and the local press could not imagine her motivations, they invented fanciful ones of their own. She was accused of being a ghost-obsessed spiritualist, and to this day it is largely believed that the extensive construction she executed on her San JosE house was done to thwart death and appease the spirits of those killed by the Winchester rifle. Author and historian Mary Jo Ignoffo's definitive biography unearths the truth about this reclusive eccentric, revealing that she was not a maddened spiritualist driven by remorse but an intelligent, articulate woman who sought to protect her private life amidst the chaos of her public existence and the social mores of the time. The author takes readers through Winchester's several homes, explores her private life, and, by excerpting from personal correspondence, one learns the widow's true priority was not dissipating her fortune on the mansion in San JosE but endowing a hospital to eradicate a dread disease. Sarah Winchester has been exploited for profit for over a century, but Captive of the Labyrinth finally puts to rest the myths about this American heiress, and, in the process, uncovers her true legacies.

Little Wonder - Lottie Dod, the First Female Sports Superstar (Paperback, New in B-Paperback): Sasha Abramsky Little Wonder - Lottie Dod, the First Female Sports Superstar (Paperback, New in B-Paperback)
Sasha Abramsky
R303 R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Save R28 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2021 One of The Times 50 Best Sports Books of 2021 Little Wonder tells the epic, and until now largely unchronicled, story of Lottie Dod, the first great heroine in women's sports. Dod was a champion tennis player, golfer, hockey player, tobogganist, skater, mountaineer, and archer. She was also a first-rate musician, performing numerous choral concerts in London in the 1920s and 1930s, including in a private performance before the King and Queen. In the late 19th century, Dod was almost certainly the second most famous woman in the British Isles, bested only by the fame of Queen Victoria. She was fawned over by the press, and loved by a huge fan base - which composed poems and songs in her honor, followed her from one tournament to the next, voraciously read every profile published on her and every report on her sporting triumphs. Yet, within a decade or two of her retirement from sports, Dod was largely a forgotten figure. She lived, unmarried and childless, until 1960, and for the last half of her life she was shrouded in obscurity. In this new book, Sasha Abramsky brings Lottie's remarkable achievements back into the public eye in a fascinating story of resilience and determination.

She Come by It Natural - Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs (Paperback): Sarah Smarsh She Come by It Natural - Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs (Paperback)
Sarah Smarsh
R392 R328 Discovery Miles 3 280 Save R64 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Intimacy And Injury - In The Wake Of #MeToo In India And South Africa (Paperback): Nicky Falkof, Shilpa Phadke, Srila Roy Intimacy And Injury - In The Wake Of #MeToo In India And South Africa (Paperback)
Nicky Falkof, Shilpa Phadke, Srila Roy
R267 Discovery Miles 2 670 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Both India and South Africa have shared the infamy of being labelled the world's 'rape capitals', with high levels of everyday gender-based and sexual violence. At the same time, both boast long histories of resisting such violence and its location in wider cultures of patriarchy, settler colonialism and class and caste privilege.

Through the lens of the #MeToo moment, the book tracks histories of feminist organising in both countries, while also revealing how newer strategies extended or limited these struggles.

Intimacy and injury is a timely mapping of a shifting political field around gender-based violence in the global south. In proposing comparative, interdisciplinary, ethnographically rich and analytically astute reflections on #MeToo, it provides new and potentially transformative directions to scholarly debates this book builds transnational feminist knowledge and solidarity in and across the global south.

Understand: Dare: Thrive - How to have your best career from today (Paperback): Diana Parkes Understand: Dare: Thrive - How to have your best career from today (Paperback)
Diana Parkes
R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In a world where women continue to face additional challenges to men, 'Understand: Dare: Thrive' delves into the underlying causes of this enduring reality and provides the insights and answers women need to enable them to thrive, across their whole working life. Businesswoman, psychologist and social entrepreneur Diana Parkes draws upon her signature skills for cutting-through complexity, providing a roadmap to understand what is necessary to achieve your career goals. By exploring how success can be obtained for women in all industries, the book picks apart gender stereotypes and demonstrates how it is possible to thrive in any position, whether entry level or leadership. The book uses powerful scientific research to blow apart myths about the reasons that men and women's careers differ. It shares deep insights about human psychology, enabling us to understand the fundamental causes of gender inequality and the reasons why inequalities in workplaces persist. Everything imparted will enable you to anticipate, prevent or circumnavigate challenging situations and move towards what you always wanted to achieve. By utilising the real life experiences of over 45 ordinary women, we see journeys from all walks of life. They all forged success across a wide range of fields, living the same daily reality most women experience: limited time, scarce resources and tricky choices. While drive, resilience and emotional intelligence were their common foundation strengths, this book brings together the power of the 900 years of contemporary career success they shared - setting out pathways to achieve your dreams, no matter the odds. * * * 'Very informative and comprehensive, covering all the multi-layer issues affecting women in the workplace. It distils the experience of so many women and provides practical ways of tackling some of the big issues that are holding women back.' - Mandy Garner, Editor of Workingmums.co.uk 'A marvellous read, full of honesty, great research and powerful methods to change our core beliefs for more success at work and in life.' - Rachel Gibson, professional musician

Gender, Diversity and Innovation - Concepts, Policies and Practice (Hardcover): Beldina Owalla, Tim Vorley, Helen Lawton Smith Gender, Diversity and Innovation - Concepts, Policies and Practice (Hardcover)
Beldina Owalla, Tim Vorley, Helen Lawton Smith
R3,008 Discovery Miles 30 080 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This edited collection presents fascinating new insights on gender and innovation with a central focus on the experiences of women innovators, exploring different geographic and institutional contexts through a series of in-depth case studies. It investigates how intersecting characteristics such as age, race and ethnicity as well as broader contextual and institutional factors enable and constrain the innovation activities and ambitions of women. Drawing on different theoretical perspectives, expert contributors interrogate questions of gender and innovation to examine the multiple factors influencing women innovators in the contemporary world. The book also engages with how policies can support diversity and inclusion within innovation, an area that has historically been highly gendered. Further to this, it recommends actions to take to support the development of inclusive practices, and identifies directions for future research. Exploring the diversity of gender and innovation as a concept as well as in practice, this book will be a stimulating resource for scholars, educators and students who wish to gain an overview of the topic. Policy makers and practitioners will find the insights on how policies and initiatives can achieve great equality and diversity informative and illuminating.

Hiding in Plain Sight - How a Jewish Girl Survived Europe's Heart of Darkness (Paperback): Pieter van Os Hiding in Plain Sight - How a Jewish Girl Survived Europe's Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
Pieter van Os; Translated by David Doherty
R496 R416 Discovery Miles 4 160 Save R80 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Guide Your Mind, Guard Your Heart, Grace Your Tongue (Paperback): Carol Burton McLeod Guide Your Mind, Guard Your Heart, Grace Your Tongue (Paperback)
Carol Burton McLeod; Foreword by Carol Kent
R425 R358 Discovery Miles 3 580 Save R67 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dear Ijeawele Feminist Manifesto In Fifteen Suggestions (Paperback): Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Dear Ijeawele Feminist Manifesto In Fifteen Suggestions (Paperback)
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 1
R177 R145 Discovery Miles 1 450 Save R32 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the best-selling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists comes a powerful new statement about feminism today - written as a letter to a friend. A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. Dear Ijeawele is Adichie's letter of response. Here are fifteen invaluable suggestions-compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive-for how to empower a daughter to become a strong, independent woman. From encouraging her to choose a helicopter, and not only a doll, as a toy if she so desires; having open conversations with her about clothes, makeup, and sexuality; debunking the myth that women are somehow biologically arranged to be in the kitchen making dinner, and that men can "allow" women to have full careers, Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century. It will start a new and urgently needed conversation about what it really means to be a woman today.

No Longer Whispering To Power - The Story Of Thuli Madonsela (Paperback): Thandeka Gqubule No Longer Whispering To Power - The Story Of Thuli Madonsela (Paperback)
Thandeka Gqubule 1
R265 R212 Discovery Miles 2 120 Save R53 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Advocate Thuli Madonsela has achieved in her seven years as Public Protector what few accomplish in a lifetime; her legacy and contribution cannot be over-stated. In her final days in office she compiled the explosive State Capture report and, before that, the report on President Jacob Zuma’s Nkandla residence. Praised and vilified in equal measures, Madonsela has frequently found herself at centre stage in the increasingly fractious South African political scene.

Yet, despite the intense media scrutiny, Madonsela remains something of an enigma. Who is this soft-spoken woman who stood up to state corruption? Where did she develop her views and resolve? This book attempts to answer these questions, and others, by exploring many aspects of Madonsela's life: her childhood years and family, her involvement in student politics, her contribution to the constitution, her life in law.

Madonsela once described her role as Public Protector as being akin to that of the Venda traditional spiritual female leader, the Makhadzi, who whispers truth to the ruler. When the sounds of the exchanges between the ruler and the Makhadzi grow loud, Madonsela said, that is when the whispering has failed.

No Longer Whispering to Power is about Thuli Madonsela's tenure as Public Protector, during which the whisper grew into a cry. It is the story of the South African people's attempt to hold power to account through the Office of the Public Protector. More significantly, this important book stands as a record of the crucial work Madonsela has done, always acting without fear or favour.

Radical Intimacy (Paperback): Sophie K Rosa Radical Intimacy (Paperback)
Sophie K Rosa
R415 R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Save R91 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Capitalist ideology wants us to believe that there is an optimal way to live. 'Making connections' means networking for work. Our emotional needs are to be fulfilled by a single romantic partner, and self-care equates to taking personal responsibility for our suffering. We must be productive and heterosexual, we must have babies and buy a house. But the kicker is most people cannot and do not want to achieve these goals. Instead we are left feeling atomised, exhausted and disempowered. Radical Intimacy shows that it doesn't need to be this way. Including inspiring ideas for alternative ways to live, Sophie K Rosa demands we use our radical imagination to discover a new form of intimacy. Including critiques of the 'wellness' industry that ignores rising poverty rates, the mental health crisis and racist and misogynist state violence; transcending love and sex under capitalism to move towards feminist, decolonial and queer thinking; asking whether we should abolish the family; interrogating the framing of ageing and death and much more, Radical Intimacy is the compassionate antidote to a callous society. Now as an audiobook, to listen to on the go.

Wanderers - A History of Women Walking (Paperback): Kerri Andrews Wanderers - A History of Women Walking (Paperback)
Kerri Andrews
R302 R247 Discovery Miles 2 470 Save R55 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Now in B-format paperback, this book describes ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps, from eighteenth-century parson's daughter Elizabeth Carter - who desired nothing more than to be taken for a vagabond in the wilds of southern England - to modern walker-writers such as Nan Shepherd and Cheryl Strayed. For each, walking was integral, whether it was rambling for miles across the Highlands, like Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, or pacing novels into being, as Virginia Woolf did around Bloomsbury. Offering a beguiling view of the history of walking, Wanderers guides us through the different ways of seeing - of being - articulated by these ten pathfinding women.

Unveiling Jazbaa - A History of Pakistan Women's Cricket (Hardcover): Aayush Puthran Unveiling Jazbaa - A History of Pakistan Women's Cricket (Hardcover)
Aayush Puthran; Foreword by Kamila Shamsie
R548 R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Save R50 (9%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Jazbaa Definition: spirit, feeling, passion, desire, sentiment, emotion In 1996, Shaiza Khan led a Pakistan team on a tour of New Zealand and Australia. While the tour was a failure on the cricketing front, the singular act of eleven women wearing flannels and battling for victory in the faraway antipodes was a significant achievement. These women had - individually and collectively - worked to throw off the shackles of social and cultural decrees that had conspired to keep Pakistani women away from sport for years. Even more importantly, these players were harbingers of change who became heroic role models for women back home and all around the world. Unveiling Jazbaa tells the story of Pakistan's women's cricket, detailing the extraordinary journey the players have been on to bring about change both in their country and in the sport itself. This is a tale told through the lens of society and politics, of personal battles and triumphs against the odds, of friendships and rivalries, of favours and revenge. Above all else, it is story of bravery and unerring will and a moving testimony to power of the human spirit. Foreword by Kamila Shamsie 'Compelling, ambitious, beautifully written and about so much more than cricket' - Tim Wigmore, The Telegraph and author of the multiple award-winning Cricket 2.0

The Black Girl's Guide To Corporate South Africa (Paperback): Lindelwa Skenjana The Black Girl's Guide To Corporate South Africa (Paperback)
Lindelwa Skenjana
R280 R241 Discovery Miles 2 410 Save R39 (14%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

This timely memoir-cum-guide includes the insights of black women at various stages of their career as they navigate the pitfalls of the corporate world.

A performance review of the working world introduced to the young women reveals issues such as racism, sexism, ethnic chauvinism, ageism, and sexual harassment that many encounter with naivety.

When technical expertise and hard work are not the issue, how do black women make the most of their efforts and support each other to success?

When Women Pray - 10 Women of the Bible Who Changed the World through Prayer (Paperback): When Women Pray - 10 Women of the Bible Who Changed the World through Prayer (Paperback)
R300 R247 Discovery Miles 2 470 Save R53 (18%) Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Find power in your prayer like never before with this inspiring guide from #1 New York Times bestselling author Bishop T.D. Jakes.

In a time when women carry more influence than any other generation, the power of prayer has never been more important to remind us that we do not have to bear our crosses alone. We need prayer to stand guard over our hearts and minds and over the hearts and minds of our families.

Women today are shattering glass ceilings and forging new paths in the world. What Happens When a Woman Prays is a clarion call for women to continue their progressive march of empowerment by dreaming like their daughters and praying like their grandmothers.

Through exploring the lives of 10 prayer-filled women of the Bible, Bishop Jakes emphasizes the life-changing power that women have when they find their identity, their strength, their healing, and their voices in Christ.

First Corinthians - Women's Bible Study Participant Book (Paperback, Participant's ed.): Melissa Spoelstra First Corinthians - Women's Bible Study Participant Book (Paperback, Participant's ed.)
Melissa Spoelstra
R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Speak - Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be (Paperback): Tunde Oyeneyin Speak - Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be (Paperback)
Tunde Oyeneyin
R428 R355 Discovery Miles 3 550 Save R73 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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