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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Women remain visibly missing from leadership roles, in part due to the leadership ambition gap.
Chapter 3: Let’s speak openly about inequality and strive to fix it, together.
Chapter 4: Women’s confidence gaps can significantly hold back their careers.
Chapter 5: Careers resemble jungle gyms more than ladders; instead, reach the top but still stay flexible in your path.
Chapter 6: Women must cautiously walk the razor’s edge of ambition and likability.
Chapter 7: To promote effective communication, practice and encourage authenticity and appropriateness.
Chapter 8: Attract mentors rather than accost them, and build natural, reciprocal relationships with them.
Chapter 9: Equality also means a genuinely equal partnership at home.
Chapter 10: Before heading out on maternity leave, lean firmly into your job as much as possible.
Chapter 11: Don’t attempt to do everything perfectly; concentrate on what’s important.
Description
Through a combination of entertaining anecdotes, solid data and practical advice, Lean In (2013) examines the prevalence of and reasons for gender inequality both at home and at work. It encourages women to lean into their careers by seizing opportunities and aspiring to leadership positions, as well calling on both men and women to acknowledge and remedy the current gender inequalities.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone interested in understanding and remedying inequality at work
- Anyone who struggles with the challenges and expectations of combining a career with family
- Anyone – female or male – looking for solid career advice