Ladies Get Paid
The Ultimate Guide to Breaking Barriers, Owning Your Worth, and Taking Command of Your Career
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Publisher Description
From career coach and founder of the startup Ladies Get Paid—the eponymous organization leading the fight for equality in the workplace—comes a “powerful call to action” (Reshma Saujani, CEO and author of Brave, Not Perfect) that provides the tools you need to strategically navigate the workplace, achieve success, and become a true leader.
Claire Wasserman has one goal for women: Rise up and get paid.
As the founder of Ladies Get Paid, Claire has worked her entire adult life to promote gender equality in the workplace. If you’re looking to navigate a promotion or break the glass ceiling, Ladies Get Paid is your essential toolkit for achieving success.
Filled with straightforward advice and inspiring stories, this book is a transformative “guide to succeeding in your field, even when you feel completely stuck” (Beth Comstock, author of Imagine It Forward), by encouraging self-advocacy and activism. Covering topics as crucial and varied as how to combat imposter syndrome, deal with office politics, and negotiate a raise, Ladies Get Paid is a reminder that you are valuable—both as an individual woman and as part of the female community. And ultimately, it’s about more than your wallet—it’s about your worth.
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Wasserman, founder of the Ladies Get Paid networking site, devotes her helpful debut to breaking down the skills women need in order to succeed in business. It's still hard for women to get paid fairly, Wasserman writes, whether in terms of financial compensation or respect and power. To remedy this, she walks readers through ways to take control of their careers. In each chapter, she illustrates her points with a relevant case study involving a woman she's helped. For work-life balance, Wasserman discusses how Amy, after a period of worsening stress at her job, learned to prioritize self-care after overcoming her "lack of understanding of it, its origins, and all the different ways it can be implemented." Discussing getting past harmful cultural messaging about work, Wasserman relates how Alisha, having chosen a higher-paying but less fulfilling gig as a consultant over her dream job as a writer, realized that "as much as she needed to be right for the company, the company had to be right for her as well." Questions for self-exploration help readers personalize the tips to their own situation, whether they are floundering at work or just need direction to the next step up the ladder. Though the advice is not particularly new, the encouraging, all-in-this-together tone will be a beacon to women navigating the choppy waters of workplace patriarchy.
