I was always a big fan of ‘fiction’ kind of books when I was growing up and I developed reading a habit by reading novels most of the time in my childhood.
I need suspense, intrigue and mystery with every page I turn over and it takes really a lot of great effort for a non-fiction to interest me, make me stay on topic and keep me engaged until the last page, but this is one of the books that I enjoyed reading through, all pages of it!
- A book with a simple message: Women have to stay in the workforce for equality, which the book talks about in all 185 pages.
Sheryl from her thoughts and experiences share the barriers that women are facing in their jobs and how to tackle them in a simple way that all women can understand, correlate and even agree to a greater extent I think.
- A well done research goes behind the book: The way Sheryl uses her facts is very interesting. Many times I found non-fictions very boring because of too many facts and data being thrown at the readers and then you will have the author connecting them to the real situations but Sheryl does the opposite here. The way she expresses the real situations and then support those arguments with the collected data from the studies seems to be a really smart approach. It worked on me (being a bad business book reader) so I guess everyone who has read this book out there feels the same!
- Stories, real incidents and pretty interesting facts: This is one of the books you can take to your favorite coffee shop, sit out at the table all alone and enjoy reading it with just a latte on your side (Although it’s a little unfortunate that I haven’t found so many non-fictions that gave me this special joy )
A little while ago I was speaking to one of the girls I went to college with, she was an outstanding student in the class and was very ambitious. She would volunteer for everything from sports to debate. I was never close to her but I really liked her a lot, so when I was catching up with her I found out that she got married a year ago, had a baby recently and she quit the job that she loved to bits. It is no wonder for me to hear that she had a successful career and now deeply saddening that she has no plans of having a full-time job again.
I suddenly had my stomach twirling. I know that she has all amazing leadership qualities and she loves being all of that but it’s such a pity that the society imposed some invisible rules and expectations on her.
I kept thinking ‘oh what a shame!! Why did my friend not have any choices?” Shouldn’t she have a choice to say she wants to be in a full-time job right after she had her baby? Shouldn’t she have an option to ask for a better support system from her husband and family? Shouldn’t she have an option to tell her husband that she expects him to share the baby caring responsibilities at home so that she can pursue the career she really enjoys?
Excited to have just realized that I have to celebrate my successful career and there is no reason to underestimate myself, I also sent a message to my friend, who shied away from her career recommending this book, not hoping she would find answers but hoping it is just enough to tell herself not to give up on her dreams and fight for her choices to go back to the job she once loved with all her heart!
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