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Deborah L. Rhode is the Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law and Director of the Stanford Center on Ethics.  She is the former Director of the Keck Center on Legal Ethics and the Legal Profession at Stanford University School of Law; the former chair of the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession and the former president of the Association of American Law Schools.  She also served as senior counsel to the Minority members of the Judiciary Committee, the United States House of Representatives, on presidential impeachment issues. She is the second most frequently cited scholar on legal ethics and the National Law Journal has profiled her as one of the country's fifty most influential women lawyers.  She has received the American Bar Foundation's W. M. Keck Foundation Award for Distinguished Scholarship on Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, and the American Bar Association's Pro Bono Publico Award for her work on expanding public service opportunities in law schools. She  clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall before she joined the Stanford faculty.  She is a former director of Stanford's Institute for Research on Women and Gender and writes primarily in the area of legal ethics and gender discrimination.  She is currently a columnist for the National Law Journal and Vice Chair of the Board of the NOW Legal Defense Fund.  She has also served as a trustee of Yale University and member of the board of Equal Rights Advocates. She is the author or coauthor of fifteen books and over 100 articles.

Foreword xiii
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (Ret.)

Women and Leadership: The State of Play 1
Deborah L. Rhode, Barbara Kellerman

PART ONE. GENDER DIFFERENCES AND GENDER STEREOTYPES

1. Crossing the Bridge: Reflections on Women and Leadership 65
Nannerl O. Keohane

2. The Great Women Theory of Leadership? Perils of Positive Stereotypes and Precarious Pedestals 93
Todd L. Pittinsky, Laura M. Bacon, Brian Welle

3. Overcoming Resistance to Women Leaders: The Importance of Leadership Style 127
Linda L. Carli and Alice H. Eagly

4. Women, Leadership, and the Natural Order 149
Rosalind Chait Barnett

5. What Difference Will Women Judges Make? Looking Once More at the “Woman Question” 175
Anita F. Hill

PART TWO. LEADERSHIP IN CONTEXT: WOMEN IN POLITICS

6. Opening the Door: Women Leaders and Constitution Building in Iran and Afghanistan 197
Pippa Norris

7. Will Gender Balance in Politics Come by Itself? 227
Drude Dahlerup

8. The Future of Women’s Political Leadership: Gender and the Decision to Run for Elective Office 251
Richard L. Fox

9. It’s Woman Time 271
Marie C. Wilson

10. She’s the Candidate! A Woman for President 283
Ruth B. Mandel

PART THREE. LEADERSHIP REDEFINED: AUTHORITY, AUTHENTICITY, POWER

11. Leadership, Authority, and Women: A Man’s Challenge 311
Ronald A. Heifetz

12. Bringing Your Whole Self to Work: Lessons in Authentic Engagement from Women Leaders 329
Laura Morgan Roberts

13. Women and Power: New Perspectives on Old Challenges 361
Evangelina Holvino

14. Women in Corporate Leadership: Status and Prospects 383
Katherine Giscombe

PART FOUR. REDEFINING THE PROBLEM, RECASTING THE SOLUTIONS

15. Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Women’s Nonlinear Career Paths 407
Silvia Ann Hewlett

16. Isn’t She Delightful? Creating Relationships That Get Women to the Top (and Keep Them There) 431
Karen L. Proudford

17. Disrupting Gender, Revising Leadership 453
Debra Meyerson, Robin Ely, Laura Wernick

Acknowledgments 475

Contributors 477

Index 489

"This book is a good read for men and women from all professions." (Supply Management, Thursday 15th November 2007)

“Now, for the first time, there is a compendium of thought as to why women in the United States are so vastly underrepresented in the halls of power, whether business, political, or religious. Women and Leadership is a must-read for anyone who cares about more balanced societies and better problem solving.”--Christie Todd Whitman, former governor of New Jersey

“Kellerman and Rhode’s fascinating book offers a fresh perspective on a troublesomely familiar question, ‘Why are there not more women in leadership positions in the workplace and in society?’ The value of the book is derived from how well it keeps its eye on the prize: work environments and societies in which everyone has the opportunity to give exactly what she (or he) has to contribute.”--Gary N. Powell, professor of management and Ackerman Scholar, University of Connecticut

“Women and Leadership is an important, timely, and very refreshing contribution to a debate that should be over by now. This is certain to become a definitive work in the field.”--Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School, and best-selling author of Confidence

“Women and Leadership is a rare and fascinating study. This remarkable new leadership resource moves us beyond the old ‘glass ceiling’ preconceptions of the past into a new understanding of challenge and opportunity for women.”--Frances Hesselbein, chairman, Leader to Leader Institute

“American women have made impressive strides toward positions of authority and leadership, but they remain achingly far from the promised land. This book provides the most authoritative exploration yet published of the obstacles still in the way and strategies for overcoming them.  It is packed with insights and understanding from many of the best in the field--all pointing the way forward. Bravo!”--David Gergen, professor of public service and director, Center for Public Leadership, Harvard’s Kennedy School