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Book Description

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 they’ve 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.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Foreword
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Part One: The Challenge
    1. 1: Why Mess with the Male Competitive Model?
    2. 2: Women’s Nonlinear Careers
    3. 3: Extreme Jobs, Extreme Demands
    4. 4: The Business Case for Diversity
  7. Part Two: Models at the Cutting Edge
    1. 5: Establishing Flexible Work Arrangements
    2. 6: Creating Arc-of-Career Flexibility
    3. 7: Reimagining Work Life
    4. 8: Claiming and Sustaining Ambition
    5. 9: Tapping into Altruism
    6. 10: Combating Stigma and Stereotypes
    7. 11: Canaries in the Coal Mine
  8. Notes
  9. About the Author
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