Ladies Get Paid

October 5, 2020
Wasserman, founder of the Ladies Get Paid networking site, devotes her helpful debut to breaking down the skills women need in order to succeed in business. It’s still hard for women to get paid fairly, Wasserman writes, whether in terms of financial compensation or respect and power. To remedy this, she walks readers through ways to take control of their careers. In each chapter, she illustrates her points with a relevant case study involving a woman she’s helped. For work-life balance, Wasserman discusses how Amy, after a period of worsening stress at her job, learned to prioritize self-care after overcoming her “lack of understanding of it, its origins, and all the different ways it can be implemented.” Discussing getting past harmful cultural messaging about work, Wasserman relates how Alisha, having chosen a higher-paying but less fulfilling gig as a consultant over her dream job as a writer, realized that “as much as she needed to be right for the company, the company had to be right for her as well.” Questions for self-exploration help readers personalize the tips to their own situation, whether they are floundering at work or just need direction to the next step up the ladder. Though the advice is not particularly new, the encouraging, all-in-this-together tone will be a beacon to women navigating the choppy waters of workplace patriarchy. Agent: Alexandra Machinist, ICM Partners.

December 1, 2020
With a title borrowed from the women's career-development organization she founded, Ladies Get Paid, career coach Wasserman provides this beyond-practical and much-needed how-to-get-ahead road map for women. It centers on the stories of nine real women who have encountered barriers to respect, recognition, and power. Reece, a London School of Economics grad, suffers from imposter syndrome; Kate, a certified professional organizer, gets stuck in the perfectionist mindset. Adding to these valuable case studies, the way Wasserman structures her book makes for clear directions for every point of the career journey, with sidebars (a chart of elements that will add to/subtract from energy), how-to's (how to deal with critical feedback), templates/exercises, and encouragement to break through in the larger world context. Personal stories like that of Beth Comstock, former vice chair of GE, plus a few mind-bending statistics (less than 22 percent of women make it past mid-management) make this a ""gotta-read"" playbook.Women in Focus: The 19th in 2020

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