Women Workplace

Providing managers, employees, CEOs, and board members a guide to build a sustainable, robust, female workforce at all levels, Better Together gives powerful and implementable solutions to fostering gender equality in your business. As a result, your business will be more successful, your customers will be happier with better products/services, and your employees will be much more fulfilled.

You know how you used to think so sharply and remember so clearly? You find yourself asking, "What is wrong with me today?" It can feel so frustrating. Menopause is a natural life process and most people know this but how much do they really understand? What most people do not know, however, is the effects of menopause on women.

Join author Ronda Conger on her new approach of what it means to be a leader of leaders - and it starts with you. It's time that you go first, stop blaming others, and take charge. Learn leadership principles that you can implement immediately, how to create a "love wins" culture, and get tactical exercises to share with your team. If you want to ensure your success as a leader, create an unbeatable team, and be a leader worth following, embracing You Go First is the first step.

How can men and women collaborate to bridge and heal the gender divide? As a female engineer with executive and global experience, Debjani Mukherjee Biswas' insights are unique, practical, and powerful. While the courageous #MeToo movement showed us how broken our power systems are, #UsToo seeks to heal and bridge these gaps.

Follow the wryly-told embattled adventures of a socially isolated, non-conforming union leader as she battles toxic management and co-worker idiocy in a well-meaning Social Services office. Chock-full of insights, foul language, and the five stages of grief, The Incredibly True Confessions of a Black Female Union Steward is relatable to any and everyone who has ever lived, died, and gone to hell in their job, work environment or both.

Customers who want what your business offers are out there. To find them, you need the right tools and an understanding of how to leverage them. In Why Your Marketing is Killing Your Business and What to Do About It, expert marketing strategist Minal Sampat shares exactly that, illustrating with real-life examples from over 10 years of experience working with businesses in multiple industries. Minal untangles some of the mysteries of the market, including social media platforms, and shares how a few of her clients have achieved real results.

Why is your brand so important? With a good consistent brand, you can increase your reputation, set yourself apart from your competition, create trust, and add value to your business. Work Your Quirks shows you what personal branding is really all about. It is full of essential information, tips, and tricks to help you create a sparkling brand that is uniquely you.

Close to one billion women will enter the global workforce by 2020, but these women are likely to drop out or get stuck in dead-end jobs. Gender equality is a human rights issue, but engaging women in the workforce is primarily an economic issue - diverse leaders drive bottom-line growth and high-level innovation for global corporations. This book isn’t only for women, chief inclusion officers, or HR practitioners. It offers insight and case studies from global leaders on why it’s a priority for everyone in an organization.

Are you asking yourself... "How am I supposed to behave now?" "What's allowed?" and "Am I making my female colleagues uncomfortable?" Those are good questions to be asking in the wake of #MeToo and the wave of sexual harassment claims. A veteran executive answers those questions and more in this practical and humorous guide to working with women.

If no further changes are made, it will take 132 years to reach full gender parity across education, economic participation and opportunity, and political empowerment! When women learn how to be heard, true leadership with positive social and economic results is seen. They can balance assertiveness with care, management with team empowerment, and create a workplace environment that is inclusive, safe, and productive. The challenge for many female leaders isn't their leadership skills, it's finding their voice!

Rosa, an introverted young writer, has landed her first big job at a popular magazine and arrives in a new city. She soon discovers that there's a sacrifice to be made as her mental health and wellness deteriorate due to conflict in a dysfunctional workplace.

The pain from discrimination and marginalization led me closer to my purpose of advocacy. I had two choices for responding to what happened to me. I could accept reality and do nothing about the fact that women of color in the workplace will be targeted for abuse and sidelined. My other choice was to use that frustration as a vehicle for warning others and providing tools to navigate those situations. I chose the latter and used this book as therapy to heal from the many years of trauma and prepare others for the journey ahead.

Social mores have changed, and yet, well-intentioned managers simply don't always know what to do and what's appropriate and useful to actively recruit, retain, and advance more women into leadership. They want to be told how this can make a difference to them and how they can make a difference - this book shows you how to improve your own results and win in business.

In this provocative book, Margaret Heffernan, former CEO and Fast Company contributor, fuses her own experience with that of hundreds of women to identify the biggest challenges and the best solutions that women face today. From VPs of Fortune 100 companies to entrepreneurs to women just starting their careers, she traces the patterns and themes underlying women's power, choices, love, sex, money, and other vital topics.

Susan Miller knows that her boss, Hoshi Tanaka, is a pig—a lecher whose obsession with women's behinds is the talk of her office. But when she is caught on video surveillance cameras sneaking pens and notebooks into her briefcase, she learns firsthand just what a lecher he really is. Right in the middle of a company meeting, Mr. Tanaka accuses her of theft, shows the video to everyone, calls her to the front of the room, and then subjects her to the most humiliating bare-bottom spanking imaginable—in front of everyone. Bare bottom? More like bare everything!