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More than fifty trailblazing executive women who broke the corporate glass ceiling offer inspiring and surprising insights and lessons in this essential, in-the-trenches career guide from Joann S. Lublin, a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and management news editor for The Wall Street Journal.
Among the first female reporters at The Wall Street Journal, Joann S. Lublin faced a number of uphill battles in her career. She became deputy bureau chief of the Journal's important London bureau, its first run by women. Now, she and dozens of other women who successfully navigated the corporate battlefield share their valuable leadership lessons.
Lublin combines her fascinating story with insightful tales from more than fifty women who reached the highest rungs of the corporate ladder--most of whom became chief executives of public companies --in industries as diverse as retailing, manufacturing, finance, high technology, publishing, advertising, automobiles, and pharmaceuticals. Leaders like Carly Fiorina, former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, as well as Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, and Brenda Barnes, former CEO of Sara Lee, were the first women to run their huge employers. Earning It reveals obstacles such women faced as they fought to make their mark, choices they made, and battles they won--and lost.
Lublin chronicles the major milestones and dilemmas of the work world unique to women, providing candid advice and practical inspiration for women of all ages and at every stage of their careers. The extraordinary women we meet in the pages of Earning It and the hard-won lessons they share provide a compelling career compass that will help all women reach their highest potential without losing a meaningful personal life.
Reviews (3)
Publisher's Weekly Review
As the Wall Street Journal's management news editor, Lublin has been in the trenches of a male-dominated business world; here she conducts 52 entertaining, if familiar, interviews with successful women about their own experiences in this biased environment. Lublin was the first female summer intern for the Journal's Washington, D.C., bureau and was in for a rude awakening when her boss walked her out on her last day-and kissed her on the lips. Other indignities followed: for instance, when covering events at private business clubs that barred women, she was forced to use a special door in the back of the building. The women interviewed here, many of whom report similar obstacles, come across as trailblazers who have showed great courage in the face of great odds. Their stories cover pushing for top roles, being in the right place at the right time, handling sexual harassment, righting pay disparity, taking risks, managing men, and deputizing male champions. There are few revelations, but readers looking for stories from women who have succeeded in spite of sexism will find a plethora here. Agent: Karen Gantz, Karen Gantz Zahler Literary Management. (Oct.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
Booklist Review
With a successful career under her belt and struggles along the way, Lublin, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and management news editor for the Wall Street Journal, offers fresh insights into women in the workforce. Inspired by her daughter entering the business world, she created this guide by interviewing more than 50 of today's female leaders, including Mary Barra, CEO of General Motors, and Brenda Barnes, former CEO of Sara Lee. Her research covers a gamut of industries, ranging from banking and finance to automotive and retail. Realities like promotion, pay, and working with and managing men are punctuated by real-life experiences from female industry leaders. Along with these, she offers practical ideas, such as Bloom where you are planted, meaning take an opportunity and run with it, even if it is over your head. Lublin doesn't shy away from failure, and she shares several examples where women leaders quit or were fired and how using that experience help propel them into successful careers at other companies. The book touches on work-life balance, and these current lessons give a fresh perspective on how women continue to change the workforce and prove their mettle in the business world.--Adams, Jennifer Copyright 2016 Booklist
Library Journal Review
Women are still vastly underrepresented in the senior executives' C-suite, but there are more of them now than there used to be. Here, Wall Street Journal journalist and editor Lublin interviews 52 female executives, including 34 current or former public company CEOs-for example, Mary Barra (General Motors), Carly Fiorina (Hewlett-Packard), Meg Whitman (Hewlett-Packard), and Irene Rosenfeld (Mondelez International). Throughout, the author includes her own experiences as well. Organized along tried-and-true themes, including starting out, pay inequity, parenthood, coordinating spousal careers, mentoring, managerial skills, and boardroom bias, chapters are written in an easy-to-read conversational style, each primarily focusing on key moments in relevant participants' careers and ending with a brief section summing up lessons learned. A complete list of the interviewees is included, as well as chapter endnotes with cited references, and a brief bibliography. These women all got to the top using their brains, guts, and creativity; this is an easy and informative way to learn from their successes (and occasional mistakes). -VERDICT Recommended for public libraries and business and women's studies collections.- Susan Hurst, Miami Univ. Libs., Oxford, OH © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| 1 Working Women Have Come a Long Way | p. 13 |
| 2 Doors Open with a Strong Push | p. 24 |
| 3 Getting Picked: Bloom Where You Are Planted | p. 43 |
| 4 Sexual Harassment Never Vanished | p. 60 |
| 5 The Pain of the Pay Pinch | p. 79 |
| 6 Getting Ahead Sooner | p. 99 |
| 7 Getting Ahead Later | p. 116 |
| 8 Manager Moms Are Not Acrobats | p. 133 |
| 9 Career Couple Conundrums | p. 158 |
| 10 Male Mentors Mean Business | p. 173 |
| 11 Managing Men Well | p. 191 |
| 12 Spotlight on Executive Presence | p. 208 |
| 13 Beating Board Bias | p. 225 |
| 14 Will the Glass Ceiling Ever Shatter? | p. 243 |
| 15 Male Champions of Women | p. 258 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 271 |
| Interviewed Executive Women | p. 273 |
| Notes | p. 277 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 283 |
| Index | p. 285 |