Product Description: This book addresses women's civil strategies for negotiation and leadership through careful analysis of social science research and management theory as well as interviews with women legislators, documenting how women in Washington are affecting the development of the world at all levels...read more

Product Description: A team of interdisciplinary experts provides an up-to-date review of current theories, empirical research, and management strategies that will help organizations address workplace bullying through both prevention and intervention...read more

Product Description: Written by experts in psycho-oncology, this book synthesizes the findings of the latest research on women's cancers to empower women to make informed choices about treatment options.• Presents up-to-date research on women's cancers and current information about diagnoses and treatment options• Considers women's cancers from a family systems perspective that recognizes the impact of women's cancers on loved ones and offers strategies for these related challenges, such as how to address the topic of cancer with children• Provides readers with information on how to prevent and deal with cancer discrimination in the workplace as well as guidance for employers• Includes an appendix with information about organizations focused on women's cancers and healin...read more

Product Description: This comprehensive, four-volume work presents practical, up-to-date recommendations in areas impacting all job applicants and employees, including work/life balance, diversity management, performance, recruitment, training programs, and employee conflict.

Product Description: This four-volume set provides updated empirical research and best practices for understanding and managing workplace diversity in the 21st century, including issues of gender, race, generation, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, and age.

Product Description: This comprehensive, two-volume handbook compiles the current case law, management practices, and social science research on workplace discrimination, including federal- and state-protected categories.• A chapter is included on each type of workplace discrimination per the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, including sex discrimination, race/color discrimination, and equal compensation discrimination• Contributions from distinguished attorneys, management consultants, scholars, and academicians working in the area of workplace discrimination• An overview of the chronology of case law in each type of workplace discrimination • A bibliography accompanying each chapter with additional references provided in appendice...read more

Product Description: The recent shootings at Virginia Tech brought issues surrounding campus violence to the forefront once again. But campuses have always had problems with stalking, sexual harassment, bullying, rape, robbery, burglary, and intimate partner violence, among other things...read more

Product Description: Workers everywhere feel the tug-of-war between work and home: Do they go to a child's game or stay late to finish up a spreadsheet? How should they respond when a boss wants to talk about a new project just as they're leaving home to attend a religious service? How do they justify an unexpected, weeklong business trip to a spouse? Managers struggle as well...read more

Product Description: By any measure, workplace violence is increasing in frequency and intensity. A recent report estimates its cost at over $120 billion. Meanwhile, experts agree that risk factors, including psychological, behavioral, and situational stressors, are increasing in the context of today's volatile business environment...read more

Product Description: When we examine the field of gender psychology closely, we note that much of what the popular media tells us about women and men does not hold up to research scrutiny. This handbook helps to replace media stereotypes and myths with realities and shows us that there are more similarities between the sexes than differences...read more

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Product Description: This book alerts readers to the fact that women's experiences are extremely diverse—even among women of the same class, race, sexual orientation, and religious group. It presents a non-Eurocentric perspective of the psychology of women, and treats women as the norm—taking into consideration such issues as mortality, achievement motivation, aggression, and society's expectations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Levy, a lawyer, and Paludi, a psychologist, pool their experience and perspectives to provide a guide for managers, employees, and anyone involved in the process of setting up workplace policies and investigating complaints. They discuss what harassment is, why it occurs, ways to deal with it appropriately, and reasons that businesses need to take the issue seriously without waiting until a lawsuit forces them to address it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A scholarly handbook focusing on variables that assist in confronting and preventing the forms of sexual victimization, which include rape, child abductions, battering, sexual harassment, and incest. Resources include parent and teacher training, public education and awareness, and psychotherapeutic techniques for families and friends of victims as well as the victims themselves...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Sexual Harassment, Work, and Education brings new and important research to bear on consensual relationships on college campuses, provides new resources for dealing with sexual harassment in elementary and secondary schools, and outlines individualized programs for workplace training...read more

Product Description: Well-organized and highly readable Sex and Gender: The Human Experience provides a current, multicultural analysis of gender-related issues, theories, and research. The authors’ clear presentation of the perspectives and issues related to sex and gender studies enables students to easily comprehend the material...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Child abduction is the most widespread form of child victimization studied. In 1992 alone, a total of 27,553 cases of missing children were reported in New York State through the Missing Children Register. The majority of missing children cases involved suspected runaways...read more

Product Description: Based on her work as a private consultant, Michele A. Paludi recognized the need for an updated version of her book Ivory Power: Sexual Harassment on Campus. This need for a second edition was not only facilitated by updated case law, but also by the considerable work published since the first edition concerning training of personnel at colleges and universities and setting up policy statements and effective grievance procedures...read more

Product Description: Pedagogical techniques are provided for topics typically discussed in the psychology of women course including heritage of the field, feminist and sex-fair research methodology, life-cycle developmental psychology of women, therapeutic approaches, women and sexuality, women's career development, women and relationships, women and health, communication skills, and violence against women...read more