Women and Leadership: Lessons from some of the world’s most powerful women Paperback – June 3, 2021

This book is a must read for all women seeking to advance their career and becoming leaders in all fields. Full of real-life advice and tips. Loved reading it and will certainly recommend to all women in my life.

Regardless of your gender, I think this is a book everyone should read when it comes out in 2021. Julia Hillard, first female PM of Australia, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, first female Finance Minister of Nigeria, wrote a powerful book full of insight from the top female world leaders from Theresa May, Jacinda Arden and Hillary Clinton.Throughout the book, Julia and Ngozi call on their own experiences to make hypotheses on why when you look at the modern day leaders within the political world such as the G20 or the corporate world such as Fortune 100 companies' boards, there is not more equal gender representation. As a woman in a male-dominated field, I keenly felt many descriptions of experiences shared throughout this book. Theresa May recalled a time when her voice cracked during a speech and she was called emotional... which reminded me of a time I advocated for myself and personal needs at work and found it hard to keep my voice from cracking as well.Instead of telling women we need to look pretty and appear extremely knowledgeable to succeed, Julia and Ngozi focus on how there are two completely different expectations for female and male leaders in terms of how they dress and speak. Julia and Ngozi share the different approaches the world leaders they interviewed take to this and also put out a louder call to action to continue to recognize and then speak up against sexism.This is going to be a book I recommend to my fellow female engineering friends when it comes out next year and it's a book I think I am likely to continue thinking about for years to come. I cannot recommend enough and I hope you put it on your 2021 TBR list.

To answer that question, these authors decided to go right to the top of ladder and speak with women who have made it to the “glass ceiling” in a world dominated by men. The result is a book about the lessons of the journey not the destination.Some of the topics will be familiar: the politics of scarcity, modern-day Salem, it’s all about the hair, she’s a bit of a bitch, who’s minding the kids? The insights, however, are nuanced and rounded out by the commentary of their interviewees. It’s not just that women have to work harder. Most of the time, they have to work harder in much more complex ways than their male counterparts.The authors present their authority for writing this book based on their experience, rather than just on their “credentials”. The passion of their endeavor is evident yet they present their findings with clarity, cool-headedness, and a sophisticated interpretation. This is a serious, scholarly study of the challenges of women looking to move into high-level positions, but it will also be comprehensible and helpful to those women who want to move from worker to management in less visible environments.(Anna received a review copy of this book)

How frustrating is it to be told by all the different sources the things you must do to be successful in life? This book definitely does NOT do that. It instead takes an empathetic approach and gives bite size approaches and allows you to have kindness and patience with yourself when dealing with life. This is so necessary for everyone to read in life. I received an advance review copy for free, and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

Good read and influential