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What women want : the global marketplace turns female-friendly / Paco Underhill.

Underhill, Paco. (Author).

Summary:

The author of Why We Buy reports on the growing importance of women in everybody's marketplace--what makes a package, product, space, or service "female friendly." He offers a tour of the world's marketplace--with shrewd observations and practical applications to help everybody adapt to the new realities. Underhill examines how a woman's role as homemaker has evolved into homeowner; how the home gym and home office are linked to the women's health movement and home-based businesses; why the refrigerator has trumped the stove as the crucial appliance; why some malls are succeeding while others fail. "The point is," writes Underhill, "while men were busy doing other things, women were becoming a major social, cultural, and economic force." And, as he warns, no business can afford to ignore their power and presence--From publisher description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781416570202
  • ISBN: 9781416569954
  • ISBN: 1416569952
  • Physical Description: 214 pages ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2010.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-206) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction -- Housequake -- Don't phunk with my hearth -- Let us spray -- Nice work if you can get it -- We can work it out -- To love, honor, and maintain -- Should I stay or should I go? -- The female, unplugged -- Women and sin -- The empress's new clothes -- C'mon a my mall -- Higher ground -- Drugstores -- See me, touch me, feel me, heal me -- Almost cut my hair -- Off the wall.
Subject: Women > United States > Attitudes.
Women > United States > Social conditions > 21st century.
Women > United States > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Social influence.
Women > United States.
Influence (Psychology)
Women.
Womyn.

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