Order from www.aauw.org. This report examines how and why women make changes in their lives through education. The study explores the motivations, obstacles, and support mechanisms that affect their critical decisions and compares them to the same factors as they affect men. The book provides women a context to examine their own educational and career choices through the lens of influences common among women.

This resource helps any administrator with one of the most essential of all administrative skills—retaining one’s sense of humor.

This reference draws on best practices of many companies to describe obstacles that stand in the way of female career advancement and how to remove them. Although information is drawn from the experience of women in the business arena, there are strategies relevant to women in education as well.

This book is written for managers. It describes theory and practice about organizations and leadership. It provides a framework to consider the opportunities and pitfalls in any organization. Although somewhat research-oriented in tone, the book has practical elements and the reader can certainly pick and choose among topics.

For any administrator, Duderstadt provides a comprehensive analysis of challenges and opportunities facing higher education in America. Spanning topics from resources to diversity to technology, this book provides perspective for administrative decisions. A former president of the University of Michigan, the author gives context for academic choices in the rapidly paced changing environment of the 21st century.

These authors help all readers understand the gap between their intentions and their accomplishments (including career decisions). The book describes “languages” to implement life transformation with permanent, not transient, changes.

This book uses interviews with managers in private and public organizations to present a plan for helping them incorporate more women and men of color into leadership roles. Morrison is the author who brought the term “glass ceiling” into our vernacular, and she helps readers understand the organizational advantage of diversity with practical strategies to achieve it.

This paper describes a “connective leadership” model that combines the traditional masculine ego-ideal with additional female role behaviors more appropriate for an interdependent workplace. Achieving styles are described as the characteristic behaviors that individuals use to achieve their goals. Gender differences in achieving styles are reported and related to the connective leadership model.

A national organization open to all women with a bachelor’s degree. Annual dues. Provides resource information by web and print.

A not-for-profit organization for women in all professional roles. Membership selection annually. Members and alums from all states in the USA. Connected with leadership organizations for women in many of the states. Provides professional skill building and networking.