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Necessary Dreams Ambition in Women's Changing Lives
By Anna Fels

While a psychiatrist's study of the "vital role of ambition in women's changing lives" hardly sounds like absorbing reading, this book by Fels, an occasional science writer for the New York Times and other popular media, is surprisingly interesting. After introductory comments about how life has changed for modern women, thanks to increased longevity, birth control and other factors, Fels raises a curious question: why do women still feel anxious or evasive about admitting to having ambitions, but men don't?

Tales From The Boom-Boom Room: Women VS. Wall Street
By Susan Antilla

This in-depth investigation of the Smith Barney sex scandal and other discrimination against women on Wall Street in the 1990s is an eye-opener. Bloomberg News columnist Antilla deftly tracks the drama and its legal twists and turns, capturing the different points of view while depicting the main characters convincingly.

Selling Women Short: Gender And Money On Wall Street
By Louise Marie Roth

Roth, an academic, sets out to discover how Wall Street firms can maintain an environment inhospitable to women in light of legal restrictions. The book compares men and women on Wall Street during the long bull market of the 1990s, when opportunities were abundant--an environment that should have been positive for women to advance.

The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much?
By Leslie Bennetts

Bennetts raises a genuine flag of concern on the playing field of the sexes. Rather than falling into the trap of the so-called mommy wars debate, she addresses an important contention of the women's movement: women's economic dependency on men.

The Mathematics of Sex: How Biology and Society Conspire to Limit Talented Women and Girls
By Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams

Three main explanations have been advanced to explain the dearth of women in math-intensive careers, and in The Mathematics of Sex, Stephen J. Ceci and Wendy M. Williams describe and dissect the evidence for each.

Targeting Inequity: The Gender Gap in U.S. Corporate Leadership [PDF LINK]
By Ilene H. Lang, President & Chief Executive Officer, Catalyst

The hearing, titled “New Evidence on the Gender Pay Gap for Women and Mothers in Management,” examined, among other topics, new findings by Catalyst on pay and corporate leadership gaps. These gaps persist across most industries—and have closed at a glacial pace. Here is the written deposition.