Up-beat, pragmatic, and chock full of advice, What Works for Women at Work is an indispensable guide for working women. An essential resource for any working woman, What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering office politics as a woman. Authored by Joan C. Williams, one of the nation's most-cited experts on women and work, and her daughter, writer Rachel Dempsey, this unique book offers a multi-generational perspective into the realities of today's workplace. Often women receive messages that they have only themselves to blame for failing to get ahead-Negotiate more! Stop being such a wimp! Stop being such a witch! What Works for Women at Work tells women it's not their fault. The simple fact is that office politics often benefits men over women. Based on interviews with 127 successful working women, over half of them women of color, What Works for Women at Work presents a toolkit for getting ahead in today's workplace. Distilling over 35 years of research, Williams and Dempsey offer four crisp patterns that affect working women: Prove-It-Again!, the Tightrope, the Maternal Wall, and the Tug of War. Each represents different challenges and requires different strategies-which is why women need to be savvier than men to survive and thrive in high-powered careers. Williams and Dempsey's analysis of working women is nuanced and in-depth, going far beyond the traditional cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all approaches of most career guides for women. Throughout the book, they weave real-life anecdotes from the women they interviewed, along with quick kernels of advice like a "New Girl Action Plan," ways to "Take Care of Yourself", and even "Comeback Lines" for dealing with sexual harassment and other difficult situations.

Up-beat, pragmatic, and chock full of advice, What Works for Women at Work is an indispensable guide for working women. An essential resource for any working woman, What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering office politics as a woman. Authored by Joan C. Williams, one of the nation's most-cited experts on women and work, and her daughter, writer Rachel Dempsey, this unique book offers a multi-generational perspective into the realities of today's workplace. Often women receive messages that they have only themselves to blame for failing to get ahead-Negotiate more! Stop being such a wimp! Stop being such a witch! What Works for Women at Work tells women it's not their fault. The simple fact is that office politics often benefits men over women. Based on interviews with 127 successful working women, over half of them women of color, What Works for Women at Work presents a toolkit for getting ahead in today's workplace. Distilling over 35 years of research, Williams and Dempsey offer four crisp patterns that affect working women: Prove-It-Again!, the Tightrope, the Maternal Wall, and the Tug of War. Each represents different challenges and requires different strategies-which is why women need to be savvier than men to survive and thrive in high-powered careers. Williams and Dempsey's analysis of working women is nuanced and in-depth, going far beyond the traditional cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all approaches of most career guides for women. Throughout the book, they weave real-life anecdotes from the women they interviewed, along with quick kernels of advice like a "New Girl Action Plan," ways to "Take Care of Yourself", and even "Comeback Lines" for dealing with sexual harassment and other difficult situations.

Nachdem in zwei bundesweiten Studien der Stand der Umwelterziehung im allgemeinbildenden Schulwesen untersucht worden war (Eulefeld, Bolscho, Rost & Seybold, 1988; Eulefeld, Bolscho, Rode, Rost & Seybold, 1993), fand im Auftrag des Bundesministers fur Bildung und Forschung im Jahr 1996 eine dritte bundesweite Studie zur Umwelterziehung statt, bei der es nicht nur um eine Bestandsaufnahme, sondern auch um eine Analyse der moeglichen Wirkungen von Umwelterziehung auf Seiten der Schuler ging. Welche Wirkungen kann man von Schule erwarten bzw. im Rahmen einer Fragebogenerhebung auch kurzfristig messen? Der Titel des vorliegen- den Bandes suggeriert, dass der padagogische Anspruch von Umwelterzie- hung und ihre messbare Wirksamkeit auseinander klaffen. Man kann sicher- lich nicht erwarten, dass schulische Umwelterziehung direkt das Handeln der Schuler in einer messbaren Weise beeinflusst. Das ware auch wohl das pada- gogisch falsche Ziel. So wunschenswert umweltgerechtes Verhalten und Handeln auch ist, Schule kann und darf nicht das Ziel haben, bestimmte kon- krete Verhaltensweisen beim Schuler hervorzurufen oder auszuloesen. Schule kann aber die Voraussetzungen vermitteln, die gegeben sein mussen, damit Schuler sich umweltbewusst verhalten. Aus diesem Grund haben wir in der Studie versucht, bestimmte Merkmale schulischer Umwelterziehung mit den motivationalen Voraussetzungen von Umwelthandeln in Verbindung zu brin- gen. Dabei haben wir den normalen Umweltunterricht untersucht, wie auch Schulklassen aus Schulen, in denen z. B. infolge ihrer Einbindung in Modell- versuchsprogramme besonderes Augenmerk auf Umweltbildung gelegt wurde. Der vorliegende Bericht gibt detaillierte Auskunft uber die Ergebnisse und zeigt auch, wo es aufgrund der Anlage der Studie schwer war, erwartete Wirkungen nachzuweisen.

A workbook for women with practical tips, tricks, and strategies for succeeding in the workplace. A companion to the highly successful What Works for Women at Work, this workbook offers women a hands-on guide filled with interactive exercises, self-diagnostic quizzes, and action-oriented strategies for building successful careers. The Workbook helps women understand their work environments and experiences and move up the professional ladder. Readers will discover the four patterns of gender bias-Prove-It-Again, the Tightrope, the Maternal Wall, and the Tug of War-and they can use the toolkit to learn how to navigate the ways these patterns affect their careers. Williams and her co-authors also introduce the new concept of "Gender Judo," which involves doing a masculine thing in a feminine way, in order to avoid a backlash. This interactive Workbook can help any working woman make better choices and offers specific advice on:* - How to write a winning resume - How to succeed on job interviews - How to negotiate salary - How to create a social media network - How to create work-life balance - How to cut through office politics In addition, the best-selling What Works for Women at Work is now available in paperback. This book has already helped thousands of working women successfully navigate gender bias in the workplace. Praised by numerous publications for offering an innovative, practical, and down-to-earth approach, What Works for Women at Work is still the go-to guide for working women. Chock full of insights, What Works for Women at Work: A Workbook will be an indispensable handbook for working women, providing the tools, the tips, and the tactics to get ahead.