Comparative analysis of autobiographies gender and the business environment

Abstract

The present study is an exploratory journey of Autobiographies written by business executives weaving intricate details of their life and their work experience in newlinerunning a successful business and acquiring top roles in fortune 500 companies. Among this two are women who talks and shares their experience of being in male newlinecentric field and breaking the glass ceiling every time, they sit at the table. The study looks at the genre of Autobiography in detail along with that it studies business environment in order to under the background of the work taken in the thesis. The study also looks into gender difference that is prevalent in professional environment and how women climb up the ladder of success with thorn slippers instead of glass ones. newline newlineThe significance of this works lies in the fact that all the primary text belongs to business executives and it is possible that the genre of autobiography is newlinecompromised as they are busy people having no time to write as they have people to do it for them. And as they are not professional writers but business executives their newlinewriting of autobiography remains in question throughout newline newlineChapter one Introducing Autobiography provides the framework for the study, investigating thoughts of the development and portrayal of the self in and through newlinebusiness executives narratives. The chapter contains the wide explanation of the genre autobiography and its features. The chapter includes the autobiographies newlinebelonging to corporate people in the real world and they belong to the contemporaries. It also includes comparing autobiography with other form of genres newlinesuch as biography, fiction and poem. Also, the truthfulness of the genre has been constantly questioned and is a matter of discussion ever since. The chapter also newlineincludes comparison of gender and genre the differences between writings of male and female and how differently they are perceived by the outer world as opposed to newlinethe idea of explaining the genre autobiography and what the self means. It connects us to the need to ana