Author: Steve MitnickPublisher:
ISBN: 9781736014226
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Women Leading Utilities
Author: Steve MitnickPublisher:
ISBN: 9781736014226
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Women in Power
Author: Jill S. TietjenPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031297245
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
This enlightening volume examines core areas of development in electric power systems, emphasizing the pivotal contributions of women engineers to the industry’s evolution. The authors cover a broad spectrum of key topics, including generation technologies, transmission and distribution progress, environmental challenges, worldwide electrification, and workforce issues. Advances in conventional and renewable energy technologies, in parallel with growing environmental concerns, and in conjunction with the aging of both the infrastructure itself and the workforce, have led to imposing and fascinating challenges for the engineers of tomorrow. This book documents the critical role of women engineers and their pioneering discoveries, relates their stories of success and struggle in their own words, and shares their perspectives on how these challenges will be addressed in the decades ahead.
Women in Traditionally Male Jobs
Author: Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership
Author: Susan MacKenty BradyPublisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 1264286368
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller From three of today’s top women leaders in business and academia—seven essential practices for thriving professionally. Women who arrive at the top should be able to thrive at the top. Instead they’re judged lucky to survive—even more so with pandemic-era pressures overwhelming their already busy family and professional lives. What if there was a way you could flourish in a senior leadership role as your best self, inspire excellence in your team channeling your own wellbeing and, at the same time, lead a highly fulfilled life? There is—and Arrive and Thrive shows you how. This timely and practice-driven guide reveals 7 practices you can use to thrive as you rise to positions of greater responsibility, risk, and reward—and empower others along the way. Powered by the latest research, boots-on-the-ground experience, and advice from 24 of the world's most successful leaders, the book captures seven practices that help you understand and leverage your unique personal powers so you can thrive in leadership. Three of today’s top women leaders in business and academia, the authors hail from very different worlds—each brings a different career path, focus of experience and personal point of view to the conversation. From their experiences, you’ll learn to make the best choices for yourself, your team, your industry, and your community.
In Search of Home
Author: Kaveri HaritasPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108834043
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Explores new geographies of urban poverty, examining the citizenship, legal status and politics of the rehabilitated poor.
Women in Renewable Energy
Author: Katherine T. WangPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031285433
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This book provides a breadth and depth of innovative and impactful research led by women investigators in the field of renewable energy. This book showcases the diversity of renewable energy solutions being deployed commercially in the United States and internationally, including new research underway. The chapters collectively cover the entire spectrum of large, utility scale to small, distributed-scale renewable energy technologies, as well as new operating practices in buildings necessary to fully capture the value of renewable energy. The chapters also discuss technical and market considerations of renewable energy resources, plus customer attitudes and acceptance. These topics touch on many of the challenges facing the world today and these solutions by women researchers are valuable for their technical excellence and their non-traditional perspective.
Women in Water Utilities
Author: WeltbankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Women are significantly underrepresented in the water workforce. Multiple barriers, ranging from social norms, to inadequate HR policies, to an unwelcoming work environment, pose challenges to female water professionals' entering, staying and advancing in the water sector. This study explores these barriers and provides utilities with practical approaches to advance their gender diversity.
Gas Age
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electric lighting
Languages : en
Pages : 1092
Book Description
Includes summaries of proceedings and addresses of annual meetings of various gas associations. L.C. set includes an index to these proceedings, 1884-1902, issued as a supplement to Progressive age, Feb. 15, 1910.
Becoming Leaders
Author: F. Mary WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780784415238
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In this second edition, Williams and Emerson update their popular handbook for professional women in engineering, science, and technology with timely information and practical tips for career success.
Women of Power
Author: Torild SkardPublisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1447316371
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 601
Book Description
CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE 2015 Do women national leaders represent a breakthrough for the women’s movement, or is women’s leadership weaker than the numbers imply? This unique book, written by an experienced politician and academic, is the first to provide a comprehensive overview of how and why women in 53 countries rose to the top in the years since World War II. Packed with fascinating case studies detailing the rise to power of all 73 female presidents and prime ministers from around the world, from 1960 (when the first was elected) to 2010, the motives, achievements and life stories of the female top leaders, including findings from interviews carried out by the author, provide a nuanced picture of women in power. The book will have wide international appeal to students, academics, government officials, women’s rights activists and political activists, as well as anyone interested in international affairs, politics, social issues, gender and equality.