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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Masculine assertiveness isn’t really worth praising or emulating.
Chapter 2: Don’t push women to lean in—ask why they’re leaning out.
Chapter 3: You can’t overcome patriarchy at work with mere confidence alone.
Chapter 4: Corporate culture doesn’t value meaningful relationships.
Chapter 5: The conditions for academic and corporate success are vastly different.
Chapter 6: Corporations present power as good, yet they often favor male authority over female influence instead.
Chapter 7: To achieve gender equality at work, focus on changing the conditions, not behaviors.
Chapter 8: Women don’t need to change; corporations must.
Description
Lean Out (2019) is an impassioned critique of corporate feminism. Rather than “lean in” to the patriarchal structures and misogynistic systems of the corporate world, it suggests that women take a step back and stop trying to act like men in order to get ahead.
Who Should Listen
- Working women who are sick and tired of being told to “man up”;
- Firms wondering why their top-tier employees all have a Y chromosome; and
- Any employee who wants to do their bit for diversity.