Longer paraphrase of "Managing the Woman's Way" excerpt:

ORIGINAL:                                                               PARAPHRASE:

Generalizing about male and female styles             Because of the risk of stereotyping,
in management is a tricky business, because         which has served as a tool to block
stereotypes have traditionally been used to             women from management, it is
keep women down.                                                  difficult to characterize a feminine
                                                                                management style.

Not too long ago it was a widely accepted                 Women have been cited for their
truth that women were unstable, indecisive,            emotionality, instability, and lack
temperamental and manipulative and weren't         of team spirit, among other qualities.
good team players because they'd never
played a team sport like football.

In fighting off these prejudices many women            Many women have defended them-
simply tried to adopt masculine traits in the             selves at work by adopting the
office.                                                                         qualities of men.