Books & eBooks
This page provides guidance on how to find books and ebooks related to women in business and entrepreneurship, along with a curated selection of recommended titles to support your research and learning.
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Selected Books on Women in Business and Entrepreneurship
Below is a curated selection of books on women in business and entrepreneurship, highlighting leadership, challenges, and successes across multiple categories.
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#MeToo in the Corporate World
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Location: onlinePublication Date: 2020Economist and award-winning author Sylvia Ann Hewlett blends vivid stories with powerful new data in assessing the impact of the #MeToo movement in corporate America and provides concrete action to help executives and companies create more inclusive and safe work environments for women, people of color, and LGBTQ employees. -
The Network Trap: Why Women Struggle to Make it into the Boardroom
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2020.This book draws on unique, unprecedented access to Chairs of FTSE 350 Chairs, boardroom aspirants and executive head-hunters, to explain why women outperform men in education and yet remain underrepresented in places of true corporate power. -
Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022Addresses the persistent problems women leaders face by offering seven actionable practices readers can use to pave a smooth path to success. -
Building a New Leadership Ladder: Transforming Male-Dominated Organizations to Support Women on the Rise
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023An examination of the factors that influence women's rise to leadership in male-dominated industries, informed by scholarly research and personal interviews. -
FinTech Women Walk the Talk
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022FinTech Women Walk the Talk draws upon the author's podcasts that feature the insights of more than 150 FinTech experts; more than 100 of which are women. It is a call to action for diversity in the workplace, showcasing the successes and presenting how to overcome the challenges. -
I'm Not Yelling by
Location: Online and Law Library HD6054.4.U6 L453 2022Publication Date: 2022I'm Not Yelling provides a strategy for savvy black business women navigating a predominantly white corporate America. It empowers black women to find their voices in toxic work environments and succeed. -
The Prepared Leader
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022Crisis experts James and Wooten emphasize constant preparedness for unforeseen challenges. Drawing from two decades of research, they provide actionable tools and frameworks to navigate crises effectively. -
Geek Girls
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022An inside account of gender and racial discrimination in the high-tech industry. France Winddance Twine provides the first book by a sociologist that "lifts the Silicon veil" to provide firsthand accounts of inequality and opportunity in the tech ecosystem. -
To the Top: How Women in Corporate Leadership are Rewriting the Rules for Success
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023Accomplished leadership advisor Jenna Fisher reveals how the world faces a once-in-a-generation opportunity to close the gender gap at the top of organizations today. -
The Road Foward: More Conversations with Top Women in the Automotive Industry
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2021Carla Bailo, CEO of the Center for Automotive Research, and Terry Barclay, CEO of Inforum, bring together over 70 of the most influential women in the automotive industry to share their insight and advice.
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Women's Entrepreneurship Policy: A Global Perspective
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023Bringing together scholars from around the world, this book provides extensive coverage of the academic literature and research on women's entrepreneurship policy. -
When the Crisis Becomes an Opportunity The Role of Women in the Post-Covid Organization
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2023This edited volume analyzes how the COVID-19 crisis could be transformed into opportunities for those women that correctly interpret the change, adapt their strategies accordingly, and increase their chances of success in a post-pandemic scenario. -
Women Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022This book focuses on social perspectives of women's entrepreneurship, in the context of work-life balance and crowd-based business modelling, and economic perspectives associated with quality-of-life expectations. -
Women in Financial Services
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022This book explores gender diversity in the financial system, focusing especially on regulations, disclosure standards, female representation in governance bodies of banks and insurance companies, the gender pay gap and the gender balance in Central Banks. -
The Foundation and Growth of African Women Entrepreneurs: Historical Perspectives and Modern Trends
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2021This book explores how culture and tradition have impacted the tendency for African women to opt for entrepreneurship. -
Working Women in the Sandwich Generation
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022Women more often than men take care of their ageing relatives together with their own children or grandchildren. Working Women in the Sandwich Generation helps present a clearer view of how to support this group both now and in the future.
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Gender and the Dismal Science: Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022How did economics become such a boys' club, and what lessons does this history hold for attempts to achieve greater equality? Gender and the Dismal Science is a groundbreaking account of the role of women during the formative years of American economics, from the late nineteenth century into the postwar period. -
The Rise of Corporate Feminism: Women in the American Office, 1960-1990
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022Follows three decades of changes in the workplace for women, from the handful of female CEOs to the "pink collar" workers - the secretaries, typists, clerks, and receptionists - who fought for raises and respect. -
Ding Dong! Avon Calling: The Women and Men of Avon Products, Incorporated
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2021With their distinctive greeting at the homes across the country, sales ladies brought door-to-door sales of makeup, perfume, and other products to American women beginning in 1886. Working for the company enabled women to earn money on the side and even become financially independent in a respectable profession while selling Avon's wares to friends, family, and neighborhood networks.
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Democracy, Race, and Justice: The Speeches and Writings of Sadie T. M. Alexander
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2021The first book to bring together the key writings and speeches of civil rights activist Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander--the first Black American economist. -
Madam C. J. Walker's Gospel of Giving
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2021Founder of a beauty empire, Madam C.J. Walker was celebrated as America's first self-made female millionaire in the early 1900s. Known as a leading African American entrepreneur, Walker was also devoted to an activist philanthropy aimed at empowering African Americans and challenging the injustices inflicted by Jim Crow. -
My Life in Full
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2021The first woman of color and immigrant to run a Fortune 50 company -- and one of the foremost strategic thinkers of our time -- Indra Nooyi transformed PepsiCo with a unique vision, a vigorous pursuit of excellence, and a deep sense of purpose. -
Whistleblower
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Location: Pardee Library HD6060.5.U52 S36 2020Publication Date: 2020In 2017, Susan Fowler published a blog post detailing the sexual harassment and retaliation she'd experienced as an entry-level engineer at Uber. The post went viral, leading not only to the ouster of Uber's CEO and twenty other employees, but arguably the birth of #MeToo as we know it. -
Women's Work: Stories from Pioneering Women Shaping Our Workforce
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2020Chris Crisman pairs his portrait photography of women on the job with interviews of his subjects: women who have carved out unique places for themselves in a workforce often dominated by men, and often dominated by men who have told them no.
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Research Handbook of Women's Entrepreneurship and Value Creation
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2022This Research Handbook highlights the importance of women as agents of change, acknowledging women entrepreneurs' efforts and supporting their value-creation activities. -
The Palgrave Handbook of Minority Entrepreneurship
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Location: OnlinePublication Date: 2021This handbook is inclusive of any community who might be considered disadvantaged or under-represented in terms of entrepreneurial activity, including women among many others. -
National Minority and Women-Owned Business Directory
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Location: Pardee Library Reference HD2346.U5 N34Publication Date: 2025This unique resource, published annually, lists over 9500 nationally certified minority and women-owned businesses.
Getting Items Not Available at BU Libraries
Even if BU Libraries doesn't own something you need for your studies, we can get it for you pretty quickly from another library.
- Interlibrary Loan (ILL). Interlibrary Loan is a service that allows current BU students, faculty, and staff to request books, articles, book chapters, and other materials from other libraries. Visit our Interlibrary Loan page to find forms to request items.
- BU Libraries Search and WorldCat Discovery. You can look an item up on BU Libraries Search or you can use an external search, like WorldCat Discovery, which will offer you a link to "Find@BU" and this will bring you to BU Libraries Search. When you log in to request the item, some of the item's information will pre-populate in the ILL form for you.
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