Women and leadership : Lessons from some of the world's most powerful women / Julia Gillard & Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.

Includes bibliographical references.

Prologue Why are we writing this book? -- 1 Doing the numbers -- 2 Our framework -- 3 Pathways to power: Introducing our women leaders -- 4 Hypothesis one: You go girl -- 5 Hypothesis two: It's all about the hair -- 6 Hypothesis three: Shrill or soft - the style conundrum -- 7 Hypothesis four: She's a bit of a bitch -- 8 Hypothesis five: Who's minding the kids? -- 9 Hypothesis six: A special place in hell - do women really support women? -- 10 Hypothesis seven: Modern-day Salem -- 11 Hypothesis eight: The role-modelling riddle -- 12 The stand-out lessons from eight lives and eight hypotheses -- Annex Snapshots of the pathways to power -- Notes -- Acknowledgements -- About the authors.

An inspirational and practical book written by two high-achieving women, sharing the experience and advice of some of our most extraordinary women leaders, in their own words. From their broad experience on the world stage in politics, economics and global not-for-profits, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Julia Gillard have some strong ideas about the impact of gender on the treatment of leaders. Women and Leadership takes a consistent and comprehensive approach to teasing out what is different for women leaders. Almost every year new findings are published about the way people see women leaders compared with their male counterparts. The authors have taken that academic work and tested it in the real world. The same set of interview questions were put to each leader in frank face-to-face interviews. Their responses were then used to examine each womans journey in leadership and whether their lived experiences were in line with or different from what the research would predict. Women and Leadership presents a lively analysis of the influence of gender on womens access to positions of leadership, the perceptions of them as leaders, the trajectory of their leadership and the circumstances in which it comes to an end, featuring Jacinda Ardern, Hillary Clinton, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Theresa May, Michelle Bachelet, Joyce Banda, Erna Solberg, Christine Lagarde and more.-- Source other than Library of Congress.