Publisher |
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INDIA |
Publication Year |
2016 |
ISBN-13 |
9789351777915 |
ISBN-10 |
9789351777915 |
Binding |
Paperback |
Number of Pages |
328 Pages |
Language |
(English) |
Dimensions (Cms) |
21 X 14.2 X 2 |
Weight (grms) |
200 |
Most women today are opting for careers over jobs, even if it requires them to play multiple roles with superhuman abilities. Meanwhile, men, at home and at work, struggle to come to terms with their changing priorities. And therein lies the chasm between male expectations and female ambition. As Dame Julia Walsh says in the television miniseries The Honourable Woman, 'In a room full of pussies, I'm the only one with a vagina.'
Own It tells women's stories: the ugly, the happy, the rarely discussed, the unacknowledged, the whispered, the denied. Close to two hundred Indian women leaders across industries discuss the challenges they face in the Indian workplace and at home. Heads of companies, human resource directors and senior managers talk about issues like pay parity, harassment, promotion and maternity policies. Why is the workplace agenda skewed against women and what are their own demons that keep them from breaking the glass ceiling?
Aparna Jain
Aparna Jain is a leadership coach and an advocate for diversity and inclusion in the workplace.
She is the author of Own It: Leadership Lessons from Women Who Do, which was awarded a Laadli Prize and was shortlisted for the Tata Literature Live Business Book Award 2016. She is also the author of The Sood Family Cookbook (2013).
Aparna Jain
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INDIA