NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2016 BY:
Chicago Tribune, Refinery 29, Forbes, Bust, CEO Reads
Part manual, part manifesto, Feminist Fight Club is a hilarious yet
incisive guide to navigating subtle sexism at work, providing real-life
career advice and humorous reinforcement for a new generation of
professional women.
It was a fight club--but without the fighting and without the men. Every
month, the women would huddle in a friend's apartment to share sexist
job frustrations and trade tips for how best to tackle them. Once upon a
time, you might have called them a consciousness-raising group. But the
problems of today's working world are more subtle, less pronounced,
harder to identify--and harder to prove--than those of their
foremothers. These women weren't just there to vent. They needed battle
tactics. And so the fight club was born.
Hard-hitting and entertaining, Feminist Fight Club blends personal
stories with research, statistics, and no-bullsh*t expert advice.
Bennett offers a new vocabulary for the sexist workplace archetypes
women encounter everyday--such as the Manterrupter who talks over female
colleagues in meetings or the Himitator who appropriates their
ideas--and provides practical hacks for navigating other gender
landmines in today's working world. With original illustrations,
Feminist Mad Libs, a Negotiation Cheat Sheet, and fascinating historical
research, Feminist Fight Club tackles both the external (sexist) and
internal (self-sabotaging) behaviors that plague women in the
workplace--as well as the system that perpetuates them.
