Challenging Women offers a radical reassessment of organisational forces for change, and the barriers encountered by the 'challenging women' (senior women managers faced with the task of transforming their organisations)

Over the past year, the proportion of women serving on the executive and supervisory boards of the top 100 largest banks in Germany rose slightly to almost nine and 23 percent, respectively. However, growth has come to a halt in the 60 largest insurance companies: on both executive and...