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Girlfriends in High Places: How Women's Networks are Changing the Workplace
  
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Girlfriends in High Places: How Women's Networks are Changing the Workplace (Paperback)

by Helen McCarthy (Author)
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  • Paperback: 113 pages
  • Publisher: Demos (1 May 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1841801216
  • ISBN-13: 978-1841801216
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 14 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 954,679 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Women are still outnumbered in the top jobs in Britain, and they experience unequal pay and promotion prospects at all levels. This is despite more than 30 years of equal opportunities legislation and attempts by employers to improve the gender balance.

Efforts to tackle unequality tend to focus on the formal barriers to women's progression. But they fail to address the informal processes and relationships that disadvantage women at work, such as exclusion from powerful male networks. The old boys' network is still alive and well in many organisations.

Girlfriends in High Places argues that professional networks can enhance individual career prospects while enabling women to work together to tackle workplace inequality. Women's professional networks can provide the kind of confidence-building support which men are good at providing for each other through informal networks.

Women exclusion from the old boys' network happens for a number of reasons from missing out on after-hours pub outings because of childcare commitments, to the sexual politics of the office, which makes it harder for women to build professional relationships with men.

Based on detailed interviews with professional women in the public and private sector, this report argues that women's networks are altering the balance of gender power at work. By facilitating new relationships between women, networks disrupt the patterns of social connectivity that have favoured men for so long.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Women are Really on the Move, 13 Oct 2004
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This work is excellent to highlight the problems created by male networks. It is good to see such an excellent overview of how women are using this technique in a different way and benefitting from it. The author's research seemed very sound. The format made it easy reading. She also gave a lot of information on actual women's networks.

As an up and coming female executive I give this book an A!

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