The book is well researched and the data references are so recent, that I immediately understood that the topic and issues addressed are as present as ever. Covering all aspects of being a woman in the labor market (from entry levels to CEO positions), the aim of the book is to bring light to on-going issues like gender-gap pay, under-representation on company boards, increased scrutiny, lack of women role-models that have made it all the way up to the top etc.
The collection of interviews with Harvard Business School alumni and short biographies of women who have gone against the norm (inserted after each chapter), make the book relevant and relatable even to people who are not touched by any of the gender inequality disadvantages.
Of particular interest to me was the “flexibility stigma” – where although flexible working hours, maternity or paternity leave and smooth re-integration are all selling points when joining a company – in reality, any of these “benefits” can still be disruptive in many instances to the career progression path.

The review will appear in the July-August issue of Global Business and Organizational Excellence. I will forward a copy of the pdf once it is published.

Non-fiction titles available through Net Galley often include recent publications from Harvard Business Review Press; for some reason, these get pulled back quickly and I often miss a chance to preview them. One that I saw recently that would also be of interest to students is GLASS HALF-BROKEN by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg.

Ammerman (Director of the Harvard Business School Gender Initiative) and Groysberg (the Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School) subtitled their work (forthcoming in mid-April) "Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work." GLASS HALF-BROKEN sounds like a promising source for student researchers who are exploring the gender inequities which continue to exist in terms of leadership opportunities, mentorships, hiring biases, and compensation differences. I look forward to seeing a hard copy, but since access disappeared to the preview version prior to my downloading it, I am assigning a neutral rating of three.