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srichart 's review for:
Lean in: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
by Sheryl Sandberg
I think this is a very important book, and one I'll be recommending to my students and friends.
If nothing else, it should convince the reader that gender bias at work is real (maybe we knew it all along, but our suspicions just got validated!). At best, it may convince talented women to stay in the workplace for a greater cause: to make in-roads for other women and to make the workplace more hospitable to women, with a larger view that the entire group--male and female--benefits from having women in the workplace. Does the author have all the answers for how to do this? No, and she admits this. But what she has done is start a meaningful conversation in which many voices should participate.
I'm noticing some patterns in other people's critiques of this book: we can all concede that not everyone has the same privilege Sheryl Sandberg has, or that we don't all work for Fortune 500 companies, or that Sheryl Sandberg doesn't have solutions for all of the gender inequities in the workplace. But I think it's a mistake to dismiss the book as a whole because of these small points--it is still worth reading!
What women have been doing to get ahead--putting our heads down and hoping people will reward us based on our hard work--isn't working, and so being aware that we need to re-evaluate our approach is kind of revelatory.
PS This is a great book to listen to if you don't need to check her references!
If nothing else, it should convince the reader that gender bias at work is real (maybe we knew it all along, but our suspicions just got validated!). At best, it may convince talented women to stay in the workplace for a greater cause: to make in-roads for other women and to make the workplace more hospitable to women, with a larger view that the entire group--male and female--benefits from having women in the workplace. Does the author have all the answers for how to do this? No, and she admits this. But what she has done is start a meaningful conversation in which many voices should participate.
I'm noticing some patterns in other people's critiques of this book: we can all concede that not everyone has the same privilege Sheryl Sandberg has, or that we don't all work for Fortune 500 companies, or that Sheryl Sandberg doesn't have solutions for all of the gender inequities in the workplace. But I think it's a mistake to dismiss the book as a whole because of these small points--it is still worth reading!
What women have been doing to get ahead--putting our heads down and hoping people will reward us based on our hard work--isn't working, and so being aware that we need to re-evaluate our approach is kind of revelatory.
PS This is a great book to listen to if you don't need to check her references!