In Our Separate Ways, authors Ella Bell and Stella Nkomo take an unflinching look at the surprising differences between black and white women's trials and triumphs on their way up the corporate ladder. Based on groundbreaking research that spanned eight years, Our Separate Ways compares and contrasts the experiences of 120 black and white female managers in the American business arena. In-depth histories bring to life the women's powerful and often difficult journeys from childhood to professional success, highlighting the roles that gender, race, and class played in their development.
Although successful professional women come from widely diverse family backgrounds, educational experiences, and community values, they share a common assumption upon entering the workforce: "I have a chance." Along the way, however, they discover that people question their authority, challenge their intelligence, and discount their ideas. And while gender is a common denominator among these women, race and class are often wedges between them.
In Our Separate Ways, you will find candid discussions about stereotypes, learn how black women's early experiences affect their attitudes in the business world, become aware of how white women have--perhaps unwittingly--aligned themselves more often with white men than with black women, and see ways that our country continues to come to terms with diversity in all of its dimensions.
Whether you are a human resources director wondering why you're having trouble retaining black women, a white female manager considering the role of race in your office, or a black female manager searching for perspectives, you will find fresh insights about how black and white women's struggles differ and encounter provocative ideas for creating a better workplace environment for everyone.
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"Our Separate Ways provides real-life insight into the challenges we face in creating an equal playing field in corporate America. The perseverance revealed in the stories shows clearly that we can't expect to make real progress in representation if the price remains so high for all those who aspire to achieve."
-Steven Reinemund, President and Chief Operating Officer, PepsiCo, Inc.
"This book is full of wisdom, pain, triumph, and practical solutions. Those of us who have stormed the glass ceiling will identify with the stories of these pioneering leaders. More important, we can learn about the power of solidarity from the experiences of our black sisters who face the 'concrete wall.'"
-Scotty King, Managing Director, Salomon Smith Barney Private Client Division
"Ella Bell and Stella Nkomo have produced an original and powerful work, brilliantly reasoned and well documented. They lay bare the high price that women, and particularly black women, pay in order to succeed in the competitive, take-no-prisoners culture of corporate America."
-Price M. Cobbs, M.D., Psychiatrist, and Founder and President, Pacific Management Systems
"Through Our Separate Ways, I was privileged to receive an insider's view of the personal and work worlds of African-American executive women that, until now, has been unavailable to me. The authors' insights break new ground for theory and practice at the intersection of race, gender, and career development."
-Douglas T. Hall, Director, Executive Development Roundtable, and Professor of Organizational Behavior, School of Management, Boston University
Ella L. J. Bell Smith is a Professor of Business Administration at the Tuck School of Business. Stella M. Nkomo is a Professor of Business Leadership at the University of South Africa Graduate School of Business Leadership.
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