About the book “Don’t Be Afraid to Act: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead”
The business world dictates certain unspoken rules for women. Don’t show your intelligence and willpower too much. Don’t display your ambitions and desire to climb the career ladder. Besides, women are held back by their own internal barriers. There are hundreds of truly compelling reasons why women give up on their careers. They don’t let themselves move forward due to a lack of self-confidence, because they don’t want to attract too much attention, because of the constant dilemma—what matters more: career or family—because of a pathological lack of time. As a result, today only 4% of leaders at the world’s leading companies are women.