Three Wixii™ Reads Reviewing & Weighing In on Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead, by Sheryl Sandberg
Why Sandberg Matters for Real Women by Judith Warner
“It’s easy to believe that women like Sandberg breathe a rarefied air, or are touched by magical qualities that protect them from the challenges the rest of us face. But they live in the same world. They drink the same cultural Kool-Aid. They also — by virtue of their power, their talents, and their potential for enormous influence — have an outsized ability to change the way we see and think about successful women, at any level of the food chain. They have an outsized ability to affect the way we think about ourselves. And that’s why Sandberg’s message matters deeply: it has a shot at bringing about a cultural change that would improve the lives of all women.”
The Real Women’s Issue: Time by Jody Greenstone Miller
“Why aren’t more women running things in America? It isn’t for lack of ambition or life skills or credentials. The real barrier to getting more women to the top is the unsexy but immensely difficult issue of time commitment: Today’s top jobs in major organizations demand 60-plus hours of work a week.”
Is There Life After Work? by Erin Callan
“Sometimes young women tell me they admire what I’ve done. As they see it, I worked hard for 20 years and can now spend the next 20 focused on other things. But that is not balance. I do not wish that for anyone. Even at the best times in my career, I was never deluded into thinking I had achieved any sort of rational allocation between my life at work and my life outside.
