Whose gender bias is it, anyway?

Book review of How Women Rise: Break the 12 Habits Holding You Back

A quick browse through 2020’s top self help titles for women reveals why Sally Helgesen and Marshall Goldsmith’s latest book,  How Women Rise, should be read. It stands out in a bevy of other books that exhort women to deal with finding their passion, unleashing their creativity and finding joy in tidying up, for its focus on female executives on the lookout for fulfilling careers. The authors argue that men and women typically present such different self-limiting behaviours in business that previous self help books, including one written by Mr Goldsmith himself, are not relevant to them. Women executives, the