Work Like a Woman: A Manifesto For Change

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However, nothing in this will be new to you, and if you are a striving woman in leadership, this is not a great place for hands on advise for your worries, but maybe a place for comfort knowing Mary Portas went through the same bs. Why I chose it: I’ve been working from home since moving to the UK for my partner’s job, but just started a new office gig this week. Her honesty about the high street project is, I think, all of a piece with her straightforwardness and warmth.

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I did pause and consider if I was judging her unfairly in this respect, and thinking differently because she’s a woman, but I really don’t think it was that. Just before she went on stage to give a speech, he turned to her and asked: “Tell me, Mary: how do two women fuck? Work Like a Woman is a memoir-cum-self-help manual in which Portas aims to show how businesses might become less “alpha” and more woman-friendly, a process she began to put into practice at her own company five years ago, when she stepped down as its CEO, having decided she would be better deployed as its chief creative officer.

I was really interested and intrigued to read Mary’s theories about leadership using more traditionally ‘feminine’ values, but I was hugely disappointed. Easy read, with an interesting insight into Harvey Nicks Christmas windows, Ab Fab and being a mum that works.

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This received huge commercial and critical acclaim and was followed by the documentary, Mary Queen of Frocks. And, as I watch this happen, I realise she is that rare and marvellous thing: at once both a brilliant invention and yet, somehow, so completely and utterly herself. When she and Mel converted their civil partnership to a marriage, one of the first lesbian couples in the UK to do so, most of the letters she received were from women thanking her for her openness and honesty.So what I’m wondering is this: what will they make of me when I appear on the podium in floral trousers and a cobalt blue jacket? Work Like A Woman is a manifesto for from young women entering the workforce and older women trying to integrate professional and family ambitions, to executives running businesses and creating best practice and the businesses that employ them.

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Meanwhile, after some deep thought and a lot of scribbling in an orange notebook, she set about rearranging her life and her business. At work, a senior male colleague told me that the reason I might be held back with regards to progression and climbing the ranks at a young age is because I’m “too nice”.I realised that there was stuff I didn’t want to do, and places I didn’t want to be, because they were not connected to my true sense of myself. For me this isn't a book to sit down and read in one session - I tried and my brain just went to pieces. It really makes my blood boil that so few women are in key decision making positions given how these policies affect us not only at the time, but throughout our working lives and into retirement.