Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success

Hewlett, Sylvia Ann

ISBN 10: 1422101029 / ISBN 13: 9781422101025

Published by Harvard Business Review Press, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success
• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1422101029
• ISBN 13: 9781422101025
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: very_good

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Synopsis

With talent shortages looming over the next decade, what can companies do to attract and retain the large number of professional women who are forced off the career highway?

By documenting the successful efforts of a group of cutting-edge global companies to retain talented women and reintegrate them if they’ve already left, Off-Ramps and On-Ramps answers this critical question. Working closely with companies such as Ernst & Young, Goldman Sachs, Time Warner, General Electric and others, author Sylvia Ann Hewlett identifies what works and why. Based on firsthand experience with these companies, along with extensive data that provides the most comprehensive and nuanced portrait of women's career paths, this book documents the actions forward-thinking companies must take to reverse the female brain drain and ensure their access to talent over the long term.

About the Author

Sylvia Ann Hewlett is the founding President of the Center for Work-Life Policy and the Director of the Gender and Public Policy Program at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Her books include When the Bough Breaks, Creating a Life, and The War Against Parents (co-authored with Cornel West). Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times, and the Harvard Business Review. She has taught at Cambridge, Columbia, and Princeton Universities. She has appeared on 60 Minutes, The Today Show, Good Morning America, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Charlie Rose, Newsnight with Aaron Brown, NBC Nightly News, Oprah, The View, All Things Considered, Talk of the Nation—and has been lampooned on Saturday Night Live. A Kennedy Scholar and graduate of Cambridge University, Hewlett earned her PhD in economics at London Univerisity.