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The Best-Kept Secret: Women Corporate Lobbyists, Policy, and Power in the United States

The Best-Kept Secret: Women Corporate Lobbyists, Policy, and Power in the United States

Benoit, Denise

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Business GeneralGeneral Political Science

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ISBN10: 0813540666
ISBN13: 9780813540665
Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr
Published: Jul 10 2007
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.52 Width: 6.62 Depth: 8.38
Language: English

From lobbyists such as Jack Abramoff, to corporate executives, like Enron's Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, recent scandals dealing with politics and government have focused only on men at the top. But do these high-profile men accurately represent the gendered make up of corporate-government in the United States?

In this first in-depth look at the changing face of corporate lobbying, Denise Benoit shows how women who have historically worked mostly in policy areas relating to women's issues such as welfare, family, and health have become increasingly influential as corporate lobbyists, specializing in what used to be considered masculine policy, such as taxes and defense. Benoit finds that this new crop of female lobbyists mobilize both masculinity and femininity in ways that create and maintain trusting, open, and strong relations with those in government, and at the same time help corporations to save and earn billions of dollars.

While the media focuses on the dubious behaviors of men at the top of business and government, this book shows that female corporate lobbyists are indeed one of the best kept secrets in Washington.


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