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What Works for Women at Work
What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know | Joan C. Williams, Rachel Dempsey
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An essential resource for any working woman, What Works for Women at Work is a comprehensive and insightful guide for mastering office politics as a woman. Authored by Joan C. Williams, one of the nations most-cited experts on women and work, and her daughter, writer Rachel Dempsey, this unique book offers a multi-generational perspective into the realities of todays workplace. Often women receive messages that they have only themselves to blame for failing to get aheadNegotiate more! Stop being such a wimp! Stop being such a witch! What Works for Women at Work tells women its not their fault. The simple fact is that office politics often benefits men over women. Based on interviews with 127 successful working women, over half of them women of color, What Works for Women at Work presents a toolkit for getting ahead in todays workplace. Distilling over 35 years of research, Williams and Dempsey offer four crisp patterns that affect working women: Prove-It-Again!, the Tightrope, the Maternal Wall, and the Tug of War. Each represents different challenges and requires different strategieswhich is why women need to be savvier than men to survive and thrive in high-powered careers. Williams and Dempseys analysis of working women is nuanced and in-depth, going far beyond the traditional cookie-cutter, one-size-fits-all approaches of most career guides for women. Throughout the book, they weave real-life anecdotes from the women they interviewed, along with quick kernels of advice like a New Girl Action Plan, ways to Take Care of Yourself, and even Comeback Lines for dealing with sexual harassment and other difficult situations. Up-beat, pragmatic, and chock full of advice, What Works for Women at Work is an indispensable guide for working women.
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Thank you for tagging me @Catsandbooks !

I share an office with a complainer: she complains when she gets phone calls, she complains when she gets emails. She gets mad if she‘s not included in a meeting, but when she is she says she doesn‘t have time for it. It‘s exhausting. Now, I‘m not exactly Mary Sunshine, but being around that negativity has really shown me who I DON‘T want to be. And for that I‘m grateful.

#ThinkPositiveBePositive

Catsandbooks Oof! That work environment does sound exhuasting! Stay strong! 💪🏼 2y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I know the feeling!! Maybe she will find another job 🤞🤞🤞 2y
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Just arrived! Got to stay sharp at the office. #workbook #tbr #ReadUp

MayJasper Good for you 😊 6y
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This book discussed many issues women face in the work place and presented ideas for how to handle them. What I liked most about it was that the authors understood that there are no one-size-fits-all solutions to any of these problems. They discussed the issues from multiple perspectives and always acknowledged that each of us has to find the approach that works for us.