Title: The Gutsy Girl     

Author: Kate White

Genre: Non-Fiction  

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing   

Format: Hardcover

Pages: 192

Rating: 4/5 stars

Synopsis (Goodreads):

Bestselling author, professional speaker, and former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, Kate White shares the nine core principles gutsy women need to go bigger, bolder, and achieve the full level of success they desire.

Twenty-two years ago Kate White wrote the bestselling career bible Why Good Girls Don’t Get Ahead but Gutsy Girls Do, and helped thousands of women push their success to the next level. Now a new generation of women, still eyeing the pay gap and glass ceiling, needs its own set of rules for today’s modern workplace.

In THE GUTSY GIRL HANDBOOK White presents the nine core principles that have guided her career, offering dozens of straightforward, doable strategies for women in any field and at any stage in their professional lives. Drawing on original research, and sharing new success stories and never-before told examples from her time as the editor-in-chief of Cosmo, White inspires women to own their excellence, break the rules (or make their own), ask for the money and opportunities they deserve, and refuse to apologize for who they are and what they want.

THE GUTSY GIRL HANDBOOK is a resource for women who want to build confidence, negotiate a great salary and perks, manage meetings, mansplaining, and interruptions, and create game-changing “notice me” ideas. This all-new, accessible handbook is a great gift for graduates, and a must-read for professional women of all levels.

Review:

I don’t normally read these kind of non fiction books, or the “self help” type books, but when @grandcentralpub reached out and sent me this review copy, I was really intrigued! And I actually really enjoyed it!

The book covers all kinds of things that are important for a working woman. Like how to negotiate a salary or a promotion. It talks about how women are less likely to ask for more money or a promotion, and how to handle such things in the work place. The author is a working professional who worked as the editor in chief for many great magazines, including Cosmopolitan. My favourite part of the book was when she was talking about how she became the editor for a financial type magazine for working women and she didn’t know what she was doing as she works for cosmopolitan, and her husband just told her she could do it because she was a working woman. This just goes to show that woman can do anything they set their mind on, and that we have the skills, even if we don’t think we do! The part I connected with was when she talked about getting out of your comfort zone and being willing to take risks and try new things, which is something I try to do as a teacher!

This is a gear short read that I encourage all women to read!

Happy reading!