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Shattered, Cracked, or Firmly Intact? - Women and the Executive Glass Ceiling Worldwide (Paperback)
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Shattered, Cracked, or Firmly Intact? - Women and the Executive Glass Ceiling Worldwide (Paperback)
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How do men's and women's paths to political office differ? Once in
office, are women's powers more constrained than those of men? The
number of women in executive leadership positions has grown
substantially over the past five decades, and women now govern in
vastly different contexts around the world. But their climbs to
such positions don't necessarily correspond with social status and
the existence of gender equity. In Shattered, Cracked, or Firmly
Intact? Farida Jalalzai outlines important patterns related to
women executive's paths, powers, and potential impacts. In doing
so, she combines qualitative and quantitative analysis and explores
both contexts in which women successfully gained executive power
and those in which they did not. The glass ceiling has truly
shattered in Finland (where, to date, three different women have
come to executive power), only cracked in the United Kingdom (with
Margaret Thatcher as the only example of a female prime minister),
and remains firmly intact in the United States. While women appear
to have made substantial gains, they still face many obstacles in
their pursuit of national executive office. Women, compared to
their male counterparts, more often ascend to relatively weak posts
and gain offices through appointment as opposed to popular
election. When dominant women presidents do rise through popular
vote, they still almost always hail from political families and
from within unstable systems. Jalalzai asserts the importance of
institutional features in contributing positive representational
effects for women national leaders. Her analysis offers both a
broad understanding of global dynamics of executive power as well
as particulars about individual women leaders from every region of
the globe over the past fifty years. Viewing gender as embedded
within institutions and processes, this book provides an
unprecedented and comprehensive view of the complex, contradictory,
and multifaceted dimensions of women's national leadership.
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