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Shattered, Cracked, or Firmly Intact? - Women and the Executive Glass Ceiling Worldwide (Hardcover)
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Shattered, Cracked, or Firmly Intact? - Women and the Executive Glass Ceiling Worldwide (Hardcover)
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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 that 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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