are hundreds of thousands of women who still are not recognized and accorded equal value in the workplace.
What has hindered gender parity? Despite the fact that women bring desired talent and needed qualities to the workplace, they are still surprisingly undervalued. Logic would dictate that we should be a lot further along than we are. After all, it has been 35 years since Betty Friedan burst onto the scene in 1963 with the publication of her ground-breaking book "The Feminine Mystique," which attacked the notion that women could only find true fulfillment raising children and tending to a home. Her vision set the wheels of social and workplace change in motion for women.
What do women bring to the workplace? Judy Rosener answers this question with the theory of beta leadership style. Women have brought many positive attributes to Corporate America. Before the women's movement, business people believed there was one best way to lead--the traditional "male way," which was autocratic and power-driven. Rosener, professor of management at the Graduat
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