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Glass Half-Broken : Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work by Colleen Ammerman; Boris Groysberg is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Glass Half-Broken : Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work about?

"Why the gender gap persists and how we can close it. Women have made up roughly half of the college-educated workforce for years, and before the onset of the economic crisis of 2020, the gap between the percentage of women and the percentage of men in the labor force was the lowest on record. But women remain underrepresented in positions of power and status. The gender pay gap, for example, shows little movement, largely because high-paying jobs are the most gender-imbalanced. Even in areas where there are roughly equal numbers of men and women, or where women actually make up the majority, leadership ranks remain male-dominated. The endurance of these inequalities begs the question: Why haven't we made more progress? A 2020 analysis by a team of sociologists affirms that progress, as measured by rates of women's employment, earnings, and the types of fields and jobs they work in, has either stalled completely or slowed. With fifty years of sweeping reforms in educational and corporate policy, it's tempting to think that any remaining gender imbalances reflect differences in individual merit or behavior, not organizational barriers. Much of the popular media supports this idea, w

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Colleen Ammerman; Boris Groysberg
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Published
2021
Language
EN
ISBN
9781633695931
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Business, Management
Updated
2026-03-24

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