Women and Work: Covid-19 and Beyond

1) Brave, not perfect: fear less, fail more, and live bolder

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"Girls Who Code CEO inspires women to chose bravery over perfection - to live a fuller and more rewarding life. From an early age, women are taught to play it safe. Well-meaning parents and teachers urge girls to be careful on the playground so they don't get hurt, steer them to activities at which they can shine, teach them to sit quietly and strive to be liked. Boys, on the other hand, are encouraged to speak up, get dirty, play rough, climb to...

2) Can you hear me now?: how I found my voice and learned to live with passion and purpose

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Caesar-Chavannes, Celina

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Canadian businesswoman and former Member of Parliament Celina Caesar-Chavannes discusses her life, time in office, and her views on leadership.

3) Dare to lead

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Brown, Brené

4) Dare to lead: brave work, tough conversations, whole hearts

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Brown, Brené

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Brené Brown has taught us what it means to dare greatly, rise strong, and brave the wilderness. Now, based on new research conducted with leaders, change makers, and culture shifters, she’s showing us how to put those ideas into practice so we can step up and lead.
Don’t miss the five-part Max docuseries Brené Brown: Atlas of the Heart!
ONE OF BLOOMBERG’S...

5) darling you can t do both

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6) Dear madam president: an open letter to the women who will run the world

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Palmieri, Jennifer

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Redefine the expectations for women in leadership roles with this #1 New York Times bestselling volume of inspiring advice by the former communications director for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Framed as an empowering letter from former Hillary Clinton Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri to the first woman president, and by extension, to all women working to succeed in any field, Dear Madam President is filled with...

7) Drop the ball: achieving more by doing less

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Dufu, Tiffany

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"A bold and inspiring memoir and manifesto from a renowned voice in the women's leadership movement who shows women how to cultivate the single skill they really need in order to thrive: the ability to let go. Once the poster girl for doing it all, after she had her first child, Tiffany Dufu struggled to accomplish everything she thought she needed to in order to succeed. Like so many driven and talented women who have been brought up to believe that...

8) how women lead 8 essential strategies successful w

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9) In this together: how successful women support each other in work and life

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O'Reilly, Nancy D

10) Lean in: women, work, and the will to lead

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Sandberg, Sheryl

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#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A landmark manifesto" (The New York Times) that's a revelatory, inspiring call to action and a blueprint for individual growth that will empower women around the world to achieve their full potential.

In her famed TED talk, Sheryl Sandberg described how women unintentionally hold themselves back in their careers. Her talk, which has been viewed more than eleven

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11) The moment of lift

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Gates, Melinda

12) The moment of lift: how empowering women changes the world

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Gates, Melinda

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**One of AudioFile Magazine's Best Audiobooks of 2019**

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How can we summon a moment of lift for human beings—and especially for women? Because when you lift up women, you lift up humanity.
For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout

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13) Our turn

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Stewart, Kirstine

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The author discusses the topic of business leadership in women and draws on her own leadership experiences as the first woman and the youngest person to ever head the CBC and the first managing director of Twitter Canada.

14) Own it: the power of women at work

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Krawcheck, Sallie

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"Sallie Krawcheck has had it with advice implying that if women simply leaned in a little farther, played the game a little better, and demanded just a few more seats at the table--i.e. acted a little more like men--they could finally break through that glass ceiling. Yet this is a contest rigged to lose. A better strategy is to embrace and invest in the unique traits that make women better positioned to lead and succeed: broader perspective, greater...

15) Stories of Creativity, Women, Work and Wealth

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Baig, Asma

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This book is about women and their positions in businesses in the early twenty-first century. It is a study about how womens thoughts and behaviours, the society, organisations and necessity affects their work, lives and careers. The research conducted has investigated the gradual increase of women as business leaders and the factors that encourage this rise. This was done mainly through primary research using questionnaires and interviews. The research...

16) Women Make Great Leaders: Real-World Lessons to Accelerate Your Climb

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Griffin, Jill

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Women Make Great Leaders is about women who have beaten the odds. Early on, they heard the whispers, the inner-call to leadership. They answered, and continue to answer it, with fierce passion-and the courage, boldness, and resilience required to rise to the next level and the next, and the next. They continually polish their talent with a capacity to work really hard, help others succeed, and play the game fair and honest. They never lose sight of...