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Title: Women Don't Ask : Negotiation and the Gender Divide by Linda Babcock, Sara Laschever ISBN: 0-691-08940-X Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 02 September, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.89 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly Recommended!
Comment: The debate on gender equity often emphasizes that women earn less than men with similar experience. Authors Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever say that while women may indeed be the victims of external forces, they also to some extent may suffer from their own inability, unwillingness or aversion to negotiate or make demands. In fact, men negotiate four times as frequently as women, and get better results. Men are much more apt to make demands and ask for benefits, pay increases and so forth. Men make more money not necessarily because the system is overtly discriminatory - though it well may be - but because men demand more. The book tends to belabor its point, and sometimes the evidence does not seem as well-presented as it might have been, but We found that it sheds useful light on a knotty social problem. Perhaps it will spur more women to fight - or to continue to fight - on their own behalf.
Rating: 5
Summary: Powerful!!
Comment: I read this book in almost one sitting. It has compelling factual data and riveting anecdotes. But, unlike Backlash, by Susan Faludi, which was almost totally negative, the authors also look at women's strengths in negotiation, and give some ideas for how to put their ideas into action.
It's not a how-to-negotiate book; I've spent the last 23 years practicing corporate law, negotiating sophisticated legal transactions and running an in-house department. This book goes beyond "how to" into "why". Essential reading for any woman!
Rating: 5
Summary: Highly recommended
Comment: This book is incredibly well-researched and thoughtfully laid out. It builds its case beautifully with interesting examples, then backs it up with empirical research. And credit to the authors' writing styles, for they do not point fingers or whine about the way things are. And they never fall into a dry style of writing. The book flows nicely, and is easy to read.
Most importantly, they shine a light on issues women have in asking for what they deserve and by laying out their case in such a well-articulated fashion, they help provide answers that we can all act upon and move forward with.
The issues that the book explores impact women across all facets of their life -- from negotiating child care responsibilites to getting the recognition and compensation they deserve on the job. As a co-author of the business book "The Old Girls' Network", I see these issues in evidence in how women buiness owners also negotiate -- for contracts, for customers, in how they price their products and reticence about charging appropriately. So, I would say this book has broad appeal to stay at home moms, women in corporate life and for the large contingent of female entrepreneurs. It is a must-have addition to all of our reading lists, and one that should bring positive results.
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Title: A Woman's Guide to Successful Negotiating: How to Convince, Collaborate, & Create Your Way to Agreement by Lee E. Miller, Jessica Miller ISBN: 0071389156 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 15 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Play Like a Man, Win Like a Woman : What Men Know About Success that Women Need to Learn by Gail Evans ISBN: 076790463X Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 11 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Start with NO...The Negotiating Tools that the Pros Don't Want You to Know by Jim Camp ISBN: 0609608002 Publisher: Crown Business Pub. Date: 09 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women by Virginia Valian ISBN: 0262720310 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 05 February, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: The Old Girls' Network: Insider Advice for Women Building Businesses in a Man's World by Sharon Whiteley, Connie Duckworth, Kathy Elliott ISBN: 073820806X Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 12 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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