Women derived significant benefits from the lessons in Betty Lehan Harragan's Games Mother Never Taught You and Margaret Hennig and Anne Jardim's The Managerial Woman. These books, published in 1977 and 1976, respectively, launched a paradigm shift in female thinking. They and other such writings encouraged women to acquire political savvy, learn the ropes, and beat men at their own games. There is much to be said for political savvy and learning the ropes, but it gets you only so far -- approximately as far as women have gotten.