Book Review: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

Book: Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg

Source: Library

Rating: 1 star

Review:

Similar to Arianna Huffington's book Thrive, I found that most of the information in this book could be found on-line and as with both books all the general information is accompanied throughout by various personal stories. This was not a good read, there is nothing really new being presented here and just like with Thrive it focused mostly on the Corporate World instead of trying to find some sort of footing that could be addressed to women in different types of settings.

This book attempts to have a rah-rah spirit to it but the dull writing and generic information doesn't make for a must read. Most of the book seems to focus on things that affect women who are in the 1% and live in a more privilege world.

I was so disappointed reading this book because I had heard so many good things about it and Sandberg has been touted as being the next Gloria Steinem. Not even close, where as Steinem wanted to help all women, Sandberg only seems focused on the women who are corporate and wealthy.

All I got from this book was that the author had/has low self-esteem which seemed to be the cause of some of her issues. She then generalizes them and places them onto how she thinks other women feel. 

This is not the sort of book that will try to suggest things women can do to make a difference towards work and feminism. The author spends more time rehashing general information and stories about her life than really getting to the point of the book.

What a complete let down this was. This was poorly written and very boring. There is contradictory information throughout and she never truly gets to the real meaning of the importance of this book. The author had wrote that it's hard sometimes for a woman to be heard when men and even some women dislike an opinionated, assertive, smart woman. And here again the author was a let down because she should have wrote that it's about time that type of thinking started to change and that it's nothing wrong with being either one of those things. Women should feel free to be opinionated and assertive as well.

Throughout this book there is barely a hint of assertiveness and it makes me wonder why this book was even written because there is no real advice or information provided here. There was also a constant undertone of the author letting women know what they were doing wrong which according to her is a lot of things. She even said that most women weren't ambitious enough to go out for jobs. Yeah, can you believe that she actually wrote that.

I know something I did wrong, that was checking this book out from the library to read. This book is a total joke.