An essential resource for any working woman, What Works for Women at
Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering office
politics as a woman. Authored by Joan C. Williams, one of the nation's
most-cited experts on women and work, and her daughter, writer Rachel
Dempsey, this unique audiobook offers a multigenerational perspective
into the realities of today's workplace.
Often women receive messages that they have only themselves to blame for
failing to get ahead: Negotiate more! Stop being such a wimp! Stop being
such a witch! What Works for Women at Work tells women it's not their
fault. The simple fact is that office politics often benefits men over
women. Based on interviews with 127 successful working women, more than
half of them women of color, What Works for Women at Work presents a
toolkit for getting ahead in today's workplace. Distilling more than 35
years of research, Williams and Dempsey offer four crisp patterns that
affect working women: Prove It Again!, the Tightrope, the Maternal Wall,
and the Tug of War. Each represents different challenges and requires
different strategies--which is why women need to be savvier than men to
survive and thrive in high-powered careers.
Williams and Dempsey's analysis of working women is nuanced and in
depth, going far beyond the traditional cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all
approaches of most career guides for women. Throughout the book they
weave real-life anecdotes from the women they interviewed along with
quick kernels of advice like a "new girl action plan," ways to take care
of yourself, and even comeback lines for dealing with sexual harassment
and other difficult situations.
Upbeat, pragmatic, and chock full of advice, What Works for Women at
Work is an indispensable guide for working women.
