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A review by byashleylamar
Ladies Get Paid: The Ultimate Guide to Breaking Barriers, Owning Your Worth, and Taking Command of Your Career by Claire Wasserman
5.0
I expected Ladies Get Paid to be focused on the financial side of our careers. I went into this book expecting to read about negotiating salary, bonuses, benefits, and total compensation packages but it is so much more than that. It’s full of case studies of women who have faced struggles in the workplace and how they adjusted course to find the path that was best suited for them. They won’t all apply to your specific situation but some of them hit very close to home for me.
One of the areas I’ve personally struggled with has always been in feeling like I need to keep my head down, focus on my work, and let my results speak for themselves and Ladies Get Paid addressed that exact feeling multiple times. It pushed me to move outside of my comfort zone and speak to women in my life about it. I found that they felt the exact way and now we’re working to push each other to speak up and be more visible in our careers. It might be a tiny thing such as turning on our cameras during remote meetings but that visibility does help!
While I won’t say that I felt like there was anything shared in Ladies Get Paid that was stunningly new information it did reinforce very important and powerful messages. It also helped me reach a place where I felt empowered to reclaim my worth and expectations around my career and my goals. I was struggling with imposter syndrome worse than ever before and this book helped push me out of that and into a new level of self-belief and confidence.
Each chapter focuses on a different struggle facing women in the workplace and provides questions that make us do a deep dive into ourselves to identify our areas of strength and what is holding us back. I read this as an eBook and found I needed to dig out a new journal to use as a companion so I could answer the questions and make notes. By the end, I found that I had drafted goals for 2021 and made a plan to actively pursue the promotion I’ve been hoping to earn.
I feel empowered, which is exactly what I was hoping to feel after reading Ladies Get Paid. I’ve already recommended it to many of my colleagues and women in my professional groups. It’s a great book to have on your bookshelves. I am absolutely certain you’ll find yourself reaching for it again, and again, and again when you need a big dose of female empowerment to get yourself back on track.
One of the areas I’ve personally struggled with has always been in feeling like I need to keep my head down, focus on my work, and let my results speak for themselves and Ladies Get Paid addressed that exact feeling multiple times. It pushed me to move outside of my comfort zone and speak to women in my life about it. I found that they felt the exact way and now we’re working to push each other to speak up and be more visible in our careers. It might be a tiny thing such as turning on our cameras during remote meetings but that visibility does help!
While I won’t say that I felt like there was anything shared in Ladies Get Paid that was stunningly new information it did reinforce very important and powerful messages. It also helped me reach a place where I felt empowered to reclaim my worth and expectations around my career and my goals. I was struggling with imposter syndrome worse than ever before and this book helped push me out of that and into a new level of self-belief and confidence.
Each chapter focuses on a different struggle facing women in the workplace and provides questions that make us do a deep dive into ourselves to identify our areas of strength and what is holding us back. I read this as an eBook and found I needed to dig out a new journal to use as a companion so I could answer the questions and make notes. By the end, I found that I had drafted goals for 2021 and made a plan to actively pursue the promotion I’ve been hoping to earn.
I feel empowered, which is exactly what I was hoping to feel after reading Ladies Get Paid. I’ve already recommended it to many of my colleagues and women in my professional groups. It’s a great book to have on your bookshelves. I am absolutely certain you’ll find yourself reaching for it again, and again, and again when you need a big dose of female empowerment to get yourself back on track.