Thirty years after women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States, men still hold the vast majority of leadership positions in government and industry. This means that women’s voices are still not heard equally in the decisions that most affect our lives. In Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg examines why women’s progress in achieving leadership roles has stalled...(展开全部)

In this inspiring and practical guide for achieving better decision-making and management, Linda Tarr-Whelan shows how having women account for at least 30% of representation at decision-making tables marks the tipping point for positive organizational and societal change.

Leadership is always necessary in any endeavor, applying equally to politics, business, society, and culture. Yet the perception of effective leadership has changed in our era. The older model of a heroic, authoritarian leader-picture the hardcharging, demanding CEO or even General George C. Patton-is part of modern American folklore folklore. The new conventional wisdom, tho...(展开全部)

Out to Work is a fresh, engaging account of the lives of a group of migrant women who, while in their teens, moved from rural towns to Beijing to take up work as maids, office cleaners, hotel chambermaids, and migrant schoolteachers. Part of the vanguard of China's great rural-urban migration in the 1990s, these women were deprived of an education because their parents were una...(展开全部)

Eileen Otis is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon.

Insulated from the dust, noise, and crowds churning outside, China's luxury hotels are staging areas for the new economic and political landscape of the country. These hotels, along with other emerging service businesses, offer an important, new source of employment for millions of workers, but also bring to light levels of inequality that surpass most developed nations. Examin...(展开全部)

Insulated from the dust, noise, and crowds churning outside, China's luxury hotels are staging areas for the new economic and political landscape of the country. These hotels, along with other emerging service businesses, offer an important, new source of employment for millions of workers, but also bring to light levels of inequality that surpass most developed nations. Examin...(展开全部)

Eileen Otis is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon.

"We spend more time working than doing anything else in life. It's not right that the experience of work should be so demotivating and dehumanizing." So says Laszlo Bock, head of People Operations at the company that transformed how the world interacts with knowledge. This insight is the heart of WORK RULES!, a compelling and surprisingly playful manifesto with the potential to...(展开全部)

【美】拉斯洛•博克（Laszlo Bock） 波莫纳学院国际关系学学士、耶鲁大学工商管理学硕士，谷歌首席人才官，每年处理200万份以上的应聘简历，负责为谷歌招募、培养并留住优秀谷歌人。当拉斯洛辞去麦肯锡的咨询工作，转而去做人力资源工作，朋友们都以为他疯了。然而事实证明， 他的选择是对的。在拉斯洛的任期内，谷歌已在各个国家超过100次被评为最佳雇主。 拉斯洛曾在通用电气和麦肯锡咨询公司任职，为科技、私募基金和媒体行业的客户提供增长战略、复苏战略及运营咨询。他也曾联合成立了一家非营利组织，帮助处于困境中的年轻人。他是波莫纳学院董事会成员，也是多家风险投资基金公司的顾问或董事会成员。 拉斯洛曾在美国国会上就移民政策改革和劳工问题做陈述；作为主题人物登上过《华尔街日报》《纽约时报》和《华盛顿邮报》，并任美国公共广播公司“新闻一小时”和“今日秀”栏目嘉宾。 2...(展开全部)