Gendering Elites: Economic and Political Leadership in 27 Industrialized Societies / Edition 1

by Mino Vianello, G. Moore

Overview

This study is aimed at identifying the mechanisms through which women can reach positions of power in public life. The study highlights the processes which may contribute new impulse to the vitality of the industrialized countries, introducing models characterized by flexibility and creativity both in enterprises and politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312232139
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/16/2000
Series:	Advances in Political Science
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

About the Author

Mino Vianello is Professor in the Faculty of Statistics at the University of Rome.

Gwen Moore is Associate Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York (SUNY), Albany.

Table of Contents

Preface--Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
• A Theoretical Framework--Eileen Drew, Gwen Moore, Renata Siemienska & Mino Vianello
• Methodology, Research Design and Sample Description--Silvia Sansonetti, Dawn Lyon, Gwen Moore, Jenny Neale & Michal Palgi
• Gender, Class and Public Power--Joanna Liddle & Elisabeth Michielsens
• The Élite's Cultural Capital--María Antonia García de León, Maria José Alonso Sánchez & Helena Rodriguez Navarro
• Career Trajectories of Political and Business Leaders--Eileen Drew
• Men and Women in Political Leadership--Maria Carrilho
• Top People and Mentors--Michal Palgi
• Is Leadership Time "Gendered Time"?--Alison Woodward & Dawn Lyon
• Life Choices and Informal Networks of Top Leaders--Jeannette Bakker
• Interpersonal Contacts--Gwen Moore & Deborah White
• Organizational Structure and Gender--Bogdan Kavcic & Marjana Merkac
• Gender, Office and Exercise of Power--Mino Vianello
• Combining Everyday Life and Career in Northern and Southern Europe--Jaana Kuusipalo, Kaisa Kauppinen & Iira Nuutinen
• On Work, Careers, Family and Gender--Johanna Esseveld & Gunnar Andersson
• Consensus at the Top?--Litsa Nicolau-Smokoviti & Burt Baldwin
• Thinking Differences--Brigitte Liebig
• Locality and Contextuality in the Social Construction of Gender--Lis Højgaard & Johanna Esseveld
• Does Gender Make a Difference in Élite's Value Orientation?--Renata Siemienska
• General Conclusions--Gwen Moore & Vianello

Editorial Reviews

This book makes 'the way things are' for men and women in the worlds of business and politics visible.
-Contemporary Sociology

From the Publisher

This compilation of 20 substantive chapters by academic contributors from Albany to Zurich provides a comparative analysis of the similarities and differences between women and men as leaders. The avenues pursued are divergent/convergent pathways to power; strategies, contexts, and uses of power; permutations of combining everyday life with elite careers; and the cultural dimensions of gender (in)equality in elites. Includes relevant data for the 27 countries discussed, plus supporting figures and tables. Vianello teaches statistics at the U. of Rome, and Moore is a sociologist with the State U. of New York at Albany. Lacks a subject index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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