There's No Crying in Business: How Women Can Succeed in Male-Dominated Industries [Hardcover]

Based on interviews with women academics, engineers, politicians, mathematicians, neurologists and others in male dominated organizations as well as the author's own experiences, this book will offer insights and advice to women who aspire to top positions in companies and industries where men traditionally have held those positions.IntroductionMale-Dominated Busineses Defined and DemystifiedThe Emotional ElementAct Like a LadyFitting InTalk the TalkMen Are People TooExcellence Is Not EnoughHow to Overcome the 'Just a Bitch' SyndromeLearning to Say NoBecome a Person of InfluenceA Band of SistersWhy It's Worth It

It's no secret that there are more men than women in politics. What has been a long held secret is that working with our male counterparts doesn't have to be a struggle; they often want to achieve the same things we do.They just may go about it in a different way.Roxanne Rivera, in her book There's No Crying in Business, does an excellent job of highlighting this and other similarities.She also shows that men and women working together can achieve much more than men and women divided. Irecommend her book tomy female colleagues, young and old! - Christine Todd Whitman, Former Governor of New Jersey (1994 - 2001); Former Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (2001 - 2003)

Most of us who have thrived in a 'man's world' don't even think about the skills and trickswe learned along the way. Roxanne Rivera'sThere's No Crying inBusiness makes them explicit with good humor and stories from the real world. - Former Congresswoman Heather Wilson

At WIPP, our goal is to educate women on economic policy and legislative issues so that they can have a strong voice and become strong advocates for the issues that are important to them. We are proud to have Roxanne Rivera as one of our members. With this great book, Roxanne proves that not only does she have an incredible handle on the issues and policies that arel£Ô