Work like a woman - Mary Portas

Work Like a Woman is a bold manifesto about why the way we work
now is in desperate need of change, how you can campaign to help make
this happen and why we will all - men and women - profit from this.

Women today are working in a man's culture - and it's holding us back. In Work Like a Woman,
Mary Portas examines the world of employment, how it works against
women and what needs to change, as she tells the story of her career -
and learning to rewrite the rules.

Taking us through her working
life, Mary looks at a range of topics from workplace bullying and
accessing promotion, to combining a career with children and the affect
that getting divorced and becoming a single parent had on her
professional life. Speaking candidly about the traps she fell into -
from aping the behaviour seen in aggressive corporate environments to
recreating a male working culture within her own business - Mary will
explode the myth of women 'having it all'. She will also track her
evolution as a business leader and the decision to rebuild her company
from the ground up on a model that today embraces female values.

Examining
practical issues, including flexible working and equal pay, and also
cultural ones - such as gender bias - Mary will argue for a revolution
in the way we work.

Work Like a Woman is a manifesto for
all: 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. Honest, accessible and entertaining, it is a bold and inspiring
vision of the future world of work.