The American Woman, 2001-2002: Getting to the TopCynthia Butler Costello, Anne J. Stone W. W. Norton & Company, 2001 - 412 pages Following an introduction by Jean Stapleton, essays by five prominent authors examine women's leadership in politics, higher education, business, trade unions, and the military. The book also contains biographies of all the women in Congress and a comprehensive statistical portrait of American women today. |
Contents
List of Tables and Figures | 10 |
Acknowledgments by Susan Scanlan | 19 |
GETTING TO THE | 23 |
Introduction by Jean Stapleton 33555 | 25 |
A Profile of JoAnn Heffernan Heisen | 35 |
Two Women and Leadership in Higher Education | 63 |
CHAPTER TWO Women and Leadership in Higher Education | 78 |
Three Women and Leadership in Corporate America | 87 |
Two Education | 193 |
Three Health | 209 |
Four Employment | 225 |
Five Earnings and Benefits | 263 |
Six Economic Security | 287 |
Seven Women in the Military | 307 |
Eight Elections and Officials | 321 |
Women in the 106th Congress | 343 |
Figure III1 Barriers to Advancement for Women of Color | 101 |
Four Women in Union Leadership by Lois Gray | 107 |
CHAPTER FOUR Women in Union Leadership | 114 |
The Struggle to Lead | 139 |
A STATISTICAL PORTRAIT | 167 |
Common terms and phrases
105th Congress academic academic administration administration affirmative action AFL-CIO African American American women black women Bureau of Labor Catalyst caucus Census CEOs chair combat Committee Congresswoman corporate Current Population Survey Defense Democrat Eleanor Roosevelt Employment and Earnings executive faculty federal female Figure footnote to Table Fortune 500 gender Government Printing Office higher education Hillary Rodham Clinton Hispanic category Hispanic Origin Hispanics are included House income institutions issues Johnson & Johnson Labor Statistics leadership positions male married Married couple Median mentoring military women Native Americans non-Hispanic number in thousands number of women occupations organization percent percentage Persons of Hispanic policies political programs Race and Hispanic racial categories ranks Rates reported Representative Republican Sandra Feldman Senate senior served shown separately data Source tion Total number U.S. Government Printing union United unpublished data vote Washington white women woman women leaders women of color women's leadership workers
References to this book
Democrats, Republicans, and the Politics of Women's Place Kira Sanbonmatsu No preview available - 2002 |