cover image Tender Power: A Revolutionary Approach to Work and Intimacy

Tender Power: A Revolutionary Approach to Work and Intimacy

Sherry Suib Cohen. Addison Wesley Publishing Company, $17 (208pp) ISBN 978-0-201-09242-4

Cohen ( Making It Big ) favors ``tender power'' in the workplace: kindness, trust and concern for colleagues, rather than one-upmanship. She offers a reprise of how liberated women are succeeding in the marketplace, then presents interviews with entrepreneurial females, not all of whom agree with her claims for the efficacy of tender power. Cohen is firm in her belief that even difficult men can be won over to the ideal, with benefits to themselves as well as to women. What she neglects to offer, however, are specific suggestions on ways for busy workers, particularly those who are also wives and mothers, to realize the dream of mutual cooperation and true equality in the business world. First serial to Working Woman. (Feb.)