Beyond the Double Bind: Women and Leadership
by Kathleen Hall Jamieson
Oxford University Press, 1995.
With intensive research and incisive wit, Kathleen Hall Jamieson provides a landmark account of the binds that ensnare women's lives - and the ways to overcome them.


Beyond Work-Family Balance: Advance Gender Equity and Workplace Performance
by Rhona Rapoport, Lotte Bailyn, and Joyce K. Fletcher
Jossey-Bass, 2001.
Work practices that focus on "integrating" rather than "balancing" work and personal lives offer greater promise for meaningful change.


Breaking the Mold: Men, Women, and Time in the New Corporate World
by Lotte Bailyn
Free Press, 1993.
In challenging prevailing notions of productivity and worktime, Lotte Bailyn makes a strong case for why American businesses should radically rethink basic assumptions about career paths, management strategies and the time clock.


Closing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can and Must Help Run the World
by Marie C. Wilson
Penguin Group, 2004.
A leading women’s advocate examines the leadership gap and explains why our nation, imperiled by terrorism, corporate greed and a fragile economy, should take advantage of women’s uniquely valuable contributions to solving these problems.


Necessary Dreams: Ambition in Women’s Changing Lives
by Anna Fels
Pantheon Books, 2004.
To what extent does ambition go against a women's very nature? In this  insightful and highly readable book, psychiatrist Anna Fels explores the options and obstacles women face in the pursuit of their goals.


Tempered Radicals: How People Use Difference to Inspire Change at Work
by Debra Meyerson
Harvard Business School Publishing, August 16, 2001. Product Number: 9059.
Drawing from fifteen years of research,… Debra E. Meyerson illustrates a spectrum of innovative ways--from cautious to increasingly bold--that individuals use to "rock the boat" from inside the corporate ship--and steer a course for powerful, positive change.


The Shadow Negotiation: How Women Can Master the Hidden Agendas That Determine Bargaining Success
by Deborah Kolb and Judith Williams
Simon and Schuster, 2000.
Women need to recognize the unspoken attitudes, hidden assumptions, and conflicting agendas that play out during negotiations, and learn to use that knowledge to their advantage.


Unbending Gender: Why Family and Work Conflict and What to Do About It
by Joan Williams
Oxford University, 2001.
Legal scholar Joan Williams outlines a new vision of feminism that calls for workplaces to focus on the needs of families.


Why So Slow: The Advancement of Women
by Virginia Valian
MIT Press, 1999.
A well-documented study reveals how unconscious assumptions about gender differences in the workplace make it harder for women to advance.


Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide
by Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever
Princeton University, 2003.
Women Don't Ask is the first book to identify the dramatic difference  between men and women in their propensity to negotiate for what they want. It tells women how to ask, and why they should.