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“Please don’t be too hard on yourself” — “Women are much harder on themselves than men are. They tend to worry more about their perceived faults and feel greater pressure to improve. This can be useful because it makes you willing to change. But getting caught up in self-reproach, or beating yourself up for being a flawed human being, is always counterproductive. You can’t lead, and you can’t make helpful improvements in your behavior, if you’re constantly berating yourself”.- Marshall Goldsmith. Despite being an avid reader my whole life, I have never said no to reading any self-help or self-development type of book. I am a big fan of improving my current version, which requires constant reminders, and what a good way for the books to remind me of what is required next. One such self-help book recommended by a friend was the last read titled “How Women Rise”. This women-specific book that attempts to "tell” how to tailor a woman's “professional suit.” For me, the...

The book is a rollercoaster of emotions and requires a robust, strong-minded reader-ship . Spiralling my thoughts and feelings from positive to negative…from good to bad… from hope to faith. The book, in short, is all about following intuition, living each emotion (be it sadness or happiness) and being authentic and raw to our inner callings. This novel (rather an autobiography) told by Glennon Doyle is her life story which tells us  learning to be brave — not just in the workplace but as a partner, parent, friend, and woman trying to navigate a world that doesn't always welcome a female perspective. The book is about her family, friends, her struggles and finding herself.  The book talks about how society defines a woman…how one woman describes another woman...how sometimes our voices are not reached to another ears, and the at last it showcases the urgency to required to know ourselves . My learnings from the books- more we understand ourselves, we begin to tru...

  Pic from internet Women have been the silent partners in the building of our world. Seldom has it happened that the efforts are voiced with the same intensity as those for contributions of males in the journey of human progress are shouted . The data gap has widened- in places where the data is collected, there is no sex-disaggregated data; and where we do have data, it is conveniently overlooked. The book highlights the adverse effect of this data gap on the overall grooming of fairer counterparts of the human species. "Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men" is the version of all the good that has happened vis-à-vis the silent and not-generally recognized contribution of another half of the human population, especially in terms of the records and data. With 16 chapters, she has investigated the shocking root cause of gender inequality and took a dive into women’s lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more uni...

  Image from internet Disclaimer- This book review is majorly a self-contemplation. The personalized meaning derived from the book vis-à-vis life experiences. The quotes are used directly from the book. I flipped through this book in 2017 while I was going through an enormous change in my personal and professional life- Mental, emotional and physical change due to embracing motherhood and a shift in job assignment. It was a period I got to understand what’s juggling between household and job is all about. While I could associate with a lot of the topics and opinions dealt with in this book and I'm most clearly within the target audience that the author was aiming to reach, but it wasn't life-changing or masterfully enlightening. Overall, the book made me feel better about my life choices and endorsed the " you're not alone " reassurance. I am happy to spend two days on this read as it added a different perspective of humanity.  The message I acquired after readin...