The Book I Chose

I am reading Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg. To finish this book by January 28, I plan to read two chapters a week which will let me finish on the 24th of January. This book has a very strong feminist vibe to it, but Sandberg states that this is not her intention. The point of her book is simply to promote woman staying in the workplace thereby improving their ranking in the career progression. She asserts that women are given that opportunity now but are not given the resources to be able to do both their “biological job” of having babies and raising them and their career job.  Sandberg also discusses in the first two chapters that the way working mothers are represented in movies is fundamentally wrong. Movies suggest that if you a family and a successful career, you have to be either distant or constantly juggling the demands of your career and you family.  In Hollywood this means that they eventually end up dropping the ball, reinforcing failure. Sandberg herself is an example of how that this doesn’t have to happen. I am finding this book very interesting, and I’m excited to learn to “Lean In” to my future career and be able to have a family. From what I have read,  Sandberg is becoming an inspiration to me.