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...Managerial Woman, Henning & Jardim...
...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...
...personal loss and a desire to continue their careers. All eventually resolved this conflict by relaxing, taking a broader perspective of their lives and their responsibilities-and often by marrying older men who already had families. Women who fail to redefine their lives in that way, Hennig and Jardim found as they interviewed other women in the course of their research, often stay in middle management, becoming even more overspecialized and embittered...
...When a woman achieves," says Jardim, "the clear inference is that her home and family suffer. So it becomes a horrid psychological trick." But this happens only as long as the woman's feminine identity remains fundamentally rooted in marriage and home. As attitudes toward women's roles change, and especially as the young grow up with more expansive and varied expectations, that kind of crippling guilt will recede...