Eve on Top: Women’s Experience of Success in the Public Sector

By David Baker and Bernadette Casey

Eve on Top takes an in-depth look at the position of women in senior positions in the public sector using a case-study approach, based on ten ‘successful’ women and their background, upbringing, career progression, successes and failures, challenges and experiences. Each case study includes a ‘lessons learned’ response in the form of advice both to other women, and the organisations in which they work. Surrounding and supporting the case studies are short essays charting the main themes that emerge from the interview process, backed up by extensive literature reviews. The book also compares relevant public sectors in different parts of the world and concludes with several case studies.

• Summarises the commonality and the diversity of the challenges and issues
• Provides an analysis of the factors that help and hinder women in reaching the top positions
• Provides solutions suggested by detailed analysis of real-life experiences

• Language: English
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Release date: Nov 25, 2010
• ISBN: 9781780631608

David Baker

aura Browder is professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is author, most recently, of Her Best Shot: Women and Guns in America, and is writer and coproducer of the documentary film Gone to Texas: The Lives of Forrest Carter, based on her book Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities (both books UNC Press).