Lean in : women, work, and the will to lead /
By: Sandberg, Sheryl [author.]
Title By: Scovell, Nell
Material type: BookPublisher: London : WH Allen, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 230 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780753541630; 9780753541630 (Trade Paperback)Subject(s): Sandberg, Sheryl | Women executives | Leadership in women | Management and Business StudiesDDC classification: 658.4092082Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 658.4092082 SA LE (Browse shelf) | Available | T0049643 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-217) and index.
Ask most women whether they have the right to equality at work and the answer will be a resounding yes, but ask the same women whether they'd feel confident asking for a raise, a promotion, or equal pay, and some reticence creeps in. The statistics, although an improvement on previous decades, are certainly not in women's favour - of 197 heads of state, only twenty-two are women. Women hold just 20 percent of seats in parliaments globally, and in the world of big business, a meagre eighteen of the Fortune 500 CEOs are women. In Lean In , Sheryl Sandberg - Facebook COO and one of Fortune magazine's Most Powerful Women in Business - looks at what women can do to help themselves, and make the small changes in their life that can effect change on a more universal scale. She draws on her own experiences working in some of the world's most successful businesses, as well as academic research, to find practical answers to the problems facing women in the workplace. Learning to 'lean in' is about tackling the anxieties and preconceptions that stop women reaching the top - taking a place at the table, and making yourself a part of the debate.