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Female Ambition: How to Reconcile Work and Family

Female Ambition: How to Reconcile Work and Family


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About the Book

In Female Ambition, Nuria Chinchilla - one of Europe's foremost experts on women in the workplace - and researcher Consuelo Leon provide a compelling account of how the growing number of women in the workforce today are combining their professional and family lives. Given its comprehensive approach, Female Ambition is a must-read every woman professional, as well as any HR executive and CEO. Based on new research, the book traces the development of women in the workplace, and focuses on a host of critical issues such as current governmental legislation and the family unit, family-responsible companies, personal leadership and the management of time in the workplace and at home. Female Ambition addresses the critical challenges women face as they seek to combine careers with a balanced and fulfilling family life. The book also provides practical tips on achieving this goal, and includes numerous real-life examples. Moreover, it offers suggestions for business leaders who want to create efficient family-friendly companies in today's global marketplace.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Being a Woman in the 21st Century The Family: Current Situation and Legal Framework Women: Agents of Change? Work and Family: Can They Be Reconciled? Family-Responsible Companies The Secrets of Personal Leadership Managing Personal, Family and Professional Time: How to Accomplish Everything?

About the Author :
NURIA CHINCHILLA holds a PhD in Management from IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. She is Director of the International Centre of Work and Family, which aims to inform companies, policy-makers in government institutions as well as private institutions about how to successfully create family-friendly work environments. CONSUELO LAeON is a Researcher at the InternationaI Centre for Work and Family at IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain. She has written extensively on women in the workplace, as well as other related topics. She holds a degree in journalism from the University of Navarra, Spain.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780230508910
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 023050891X
  • Publisher Date: 06 Oct 2005
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Sub Title: How to Reconcile Work and Family


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