Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success
By (Author) Sylvia Ann Hewlett
Harvard Business Review Press
Harvard Business Review Press
16th April 2007
United States
General
Non Fiction
Gender studies: women and girls
658.30082
Hardback
299
Width 165mm, Height 243mm
657g
With talent shortages looming over the next decade, what can companies do to attract and retain the large number of professional women who are forced off the career highway
By documenting the successful efforts of a group of cutting-edge global companies to retain talented women and reintegrate them if theyve already left, Off-Ramps and On-Ramps answers this critical question. Working closely with companies such as Ernst & Young, Goldman Sachs, Time Warner, General Electric and others, author Sylvia Ann Hewlett identifies what works and why. Based on firsthand experience with these companies, along with extensive data that provides the most comprehensive and nuanced portrait of women's career paths, this book documents the actions forward-thinking companies must take to reverse the female brain drain and ensure their access to talent over the long term.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett, economist and founding President of the Centre for Work-Life Policy, is the Director of the Gender and Public Policy Program at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.