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Women Managers

Judy B. Rosener, in her acclaimed work entitled, America's Competitive Secret: Women Managers (1995), presents a strong academic case for increasing efforts in the business community to achieve gender parity in top management. This essay reviews Rosener's arguments and critiques her theories on gender parity. The emphasis of this essay is on Rosener's theory of beta leadership styles and its impact on the Quality of Work Life (QWL) as well as traditional business practices.

After three decades of attention and concern directed toward women's parity in the workplace, there is still only a handful of success stories for women moving into upper management. While society is moving in the right direction, the movement is slow. Women have made strides, especially in the professional and educational arenas, and in entrepreneurial and small business ventures, but they lag woefully behind in the corporate word. To make matters worse, there is little dispute about the value women bring to the workplace. Society may be inching along in the right direction, but as we approach the millennium, what do we have to show for the decades of work in this area?

For example, if you look at the Working Mother list of 100 Best Companies, only seven have achieved parity (meaning the percentage of women in the company is reflected among the upper echelons). Equally alarming, women comprise almost 50 percent of today's workforce, and statisticians project this number will increase to 62 percent within a decade. And, women comprise 34 percent of MBA program candidates.

Nevertheless, social statistics show that only about 10 percent of the corporate officers in Fortune 500 companies are women. Financial figures paint an even bleaker portrait. Of the top earners in these companies, women comprise a miniscule proportion of the top salary earners. In other words, for every woman CEO, president, executive vice president, and senior managing director, there...

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