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Career Day--panel discussions with women executives; Margaret Hennig and Anne Jardin, speakers; Burden Hall...
...woman take after a man?" sang an exasperated Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady. That tacit sentiment all too often pervades male-dominated executive suites, report Social Psychologists Margaret Hennig and Anne Jardim of Boston's Simmons College. In their new book, The Managerial Woman (Anchor-Doubleday; $7.95), based on in-depth interviews with 125 business-oriented women, they analyze why so few women have become top corporate executives. Their answer: most women never learned to play football or other team sports. For corporate men, whom the authors got to know as company consultants and teachers, life...
Self-Improvement. Women executives, say Hennig and Jardim, are passive and overspecialized. They underestimate their own achievements and often attribute their successes to luck; even when highly competent, they doubt themselves and spend much time on self-improvement. Men-those who become top executives anyway-assume they are competent and set out to see that somebody important realizes it. Women play it safe, wait to be recognized, then blame themselves when they are not rewarded-rather than raising the corporate equivalent of the athlete's cry: "Play me or trade...
...course a few women do become top executives. Why? Hennig had found earlier-in a study of the careers of 25 company presidents and vice presidents that earned her a doctorate from the Harvard Business School-that such successful women were first-born or only children. They grew up very close to their fathers, who shared activities with them as if they were boys. Thus they acquired a familiarity with the unwritten rules and a strong selfesteem, which carried them through the tryouts of their early years and landed them places at the middle-management level. At that point...
...reported earlier by academics; where she does cite experts they tend to be introduced as mere spear carriers in her own pageant. Levinson, for example, outlined the "mentor phenomenon"-that in middle age a man feels the need to promote the fortunes of a younger worker. In 1970 Margaret Hennig, co-director of Simmons College's graduate program in management, reported on the importance of mentors to women in corporate life. Gould wrote about the marital disharmony that comes from projecting conflicts with parents onto the spouse. Yet Sheehy insists that most of the book is original, including...