skirt! Rules for the Workplace:
An Irreverant Guide to Advancing Your Career

by Kelly Love Johnson

Copyright 2008 by Kelly Love Johnson. All Rights Reserved.

Categories:  Contemporary  Self-Help  Women

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Humorous, practical, tell-it-like-it-is advice for women in the workplace.

Only seven of the Fortune 500 companies have a woman as CEO or President, and nearly 20 percent of them don't have any women at all in upper management. In the bestselling tradition of Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office and Who Moved My Cheese, Kelly Love Johnson lays out practical advice for career women who are starting out or who wonder why they're not moving ahead. This is the book every graduating senior, receptionist, and entry-level assistant will steal from her best friend. Johnson shows how speaking out, embracing change, and changing others' perceptions of working women can bring both personal and professional success. Chapters include: "The Alphas and the Betas: Personality Types," "A Feminist Says What?" and "Work Like a Girl." Using personal anecdotes, tried and true tactics, and a directory of resources and Web sites, Johnson shows readers how women can move ahead in the workplace just as well as men, as Ginger Rogers once said, "but backwards and in high heels."

Praise for skirt! Rules for the Workplace

"Want a fulfilling career? To be paid what you are worth? To get ahead without leaving your ethics in the garbage? skirt! Rules for the Workplace . . . is savvy, strategic, and suitable wisdom for any office."
—Jennifer Baumgardner, author of Manifesta, Grassroots, and Look Both Ways

"Funny, feminist, and packed with practical suggestions that will make your work life better—and make the workplace in general better for women. I learned something or got useful encouragement on every page."
—Alison Piepmeier, director of the Women's and Gender Studies, Program at the College of Charleston

Extended Copyright Information

Copyright 2008 by Kelly Love Johnson. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, except as may be expressly permitted in writing by the publisher. Requests for permission should be sent to skirt!, Attn: Rights and Permissions Department, P.O. Box 480, Guilford, Connecticut 06437.

Previously published by skirt!, an imprint of the Globe Pequot Press.

Cover design by Georgiana Goodwin.

About the Author

Kelly Love Johnson is a writer and senior editor for skirt! magazine. She got her first job at age fifteen, worked full-time through two college degrees, and earned her management skills badge by swimming with sharks and being thrown to the wolves. She hasn't worn pantyhose or fetched coffee in ten years.

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especially my first boss, the one who taught me I CAN have it all, my mother, Ginger Johnson.
skirt! Rules for the Workplace is a real-life perspective on feminism in the workplace, with a humorous approach, for young (or not-so-young) women who want to know what they can do to close their own wage ...

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