Gendering Elites

MARIA JOSAe ALONSO S NCHEZ Fellow, Centre of Sociological Research, Madrid GUNNAR ANDERSSONM Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Lund, Sweden JEANNETTE BAKKER Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam BURT BALDWIN Professor, Department of Sociology, Central Connecticut State University MARIA CARRILHO Professor, Higher Institute of Business and Labour, Portugal GERTRAND DIEM-WILLE Professor, Interuniversitares Institut fur Interdisziplinares Forschung EILEEN DREW Senior Lecturer, Department of Statistics, Trinity College, University of Dublin JOHANNA ESSEVELD Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Lund MARAiA ANTONIA GARCAiA DE LEA"N Professor, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Education, Compultense University of Madrid LIS HA JGAARD Associate Professor, Institute of Political Science, University of Copenhagen KAISA KAUPPINEN Senior Researcher, Department of Psychology, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland BOGDAN KAVCIC Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Lubljana, Slovenia JAANA KUUSIPALO Senior Researcher, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Tampere, Finland JOANNA LIDDLE Lecturer, Centre of the Study of Women and Gender, University of Warwick, UK BRIGITTE LIEBIG Fellow Lecturer, Institute of Psychology, Social Research Department, University of Zurich DAWN LYON Researcher, European University Institute, Italy MARJANA MERKAC Professor, GEA College of Entrepreneurship, Portoroz, Slovenia ELISABETH MICHIELSENS Fellow, Westminster Business School, University of Westminster, UK GWEN MOORE JENNY NEALE Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand LITSA NICOLAOU-SMOKOVITI Department of Business Administration, University of Piraeus, Greece IIRA NUUTINEN Department of Psychology, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Finland MICHAL PALGI Senior Lecturer and Chair of Women and Gender Studies, Yemek Iezreel College, Israel HELENA RODRIGUEZ NAVARRO Fellow, Department of Sociology, Faculty of Education, Compultense University of Madrid SILVIA SANSONETTI Faculty of Statistics, University of Rome La Sapienza RENATA SIEMIENSKA Head of Department, Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw MINO VIANELLO DEBORAH WHITE Department of Sociology, State University of New York, Albany ALISON WOODWARD Professor, Vesalius College, Free University, Belgium JUDITH ZIEGLER Researcher, Interuniversitares Institut fur Interdisziplinares Forschung

This study identifies the mechanisms through which women can reach positions of power in public life. The study highlights the processes which may contribute new impulse to the vitality of the industrialized countries, introducing models characterized by flexibility and creativity both in enterprises and politics.This study identifies the mechanisms through which women can reach positions of power in public life. The study highlights the processes which may contribute new impulse to the vitality of the industrialized countries, introducing models characterized by flexibility and creativity both in enterprises and politics.