Reviews for Right Ho, Jeeves

The average rating for Right Ho, Jeeves based on 2 reviews is 2 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-11-10 00:00:00 Lucy Leicht First of all, WTF is this cover? Does this woman not have eyes just so that she doesn't have to read this terrible book? What was the point of this? If Lublin simply wanted to share stories of women in business then she needn't have put a bullet-ed list of contradictory "lessons" at the end of each chapter. If, rather, the point was to actually think about the issues facing women in the workplace and analyze them, maybe she should have actually DONE that instead of just putting a bullet-ed list of contradictory "lessons" at the end of each chapter. And when I say these lessons get contradictory, I'm not kidding: one "lesson" after the chapter discussing (pointing out? we don't ever really reach discussion in this book) sexual harassment in the workplace is about a woman who tells her daughter that she hasn't "'earned the right to make a big deal'" about her harassment and that she should "'just stay out of his way.'" For some reason, this is okay. We do not unpack this statement. Even better, we follow it with a lesson telling us not to accept harassment and to "'push back as equals.'" Unfortunately, we never really unpack any of the issues in these women's stories. Is this fatalism? The world will never accept a woman wearing a colorful dress to an executive board meeting, so we will simply tell a story about a woman who changed her wardrobe to single-color outfits and leave it at that? Or is this just bad writing? Does Lublin simply not realize that she didn't draw a single conclusion and has therefore produced a collection of unconnected anecdotes with conflicting messages and no real scholarship? Zero stars. Do not waste your time with this book.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-10-16 00:00:00 Betarice Sutton "Earning It" is a non-fiction business book geared for women in the workplace. Being a working woman today, I am so appreciative for those women who have gone before me and have paved the way for me. There is a long way to go but oh-so-many of the stories in this book show how far we've come. It gives me hope that we're on the right track! This book is filled with stories of women from many different sectors of the economy. The author tells the stories of a ton of different women. There are some you may recognize like Mary Barra or Carly Fiorina, who made a run for the White House just earlier this year. There are also a lot of other woman that I had never heard of so there was even more to learn in this book. They are tales of irritation and hard won respect. They are tales of difficult circumstances and triumph. The author delves into her own experiences as one of the first female reporters for the illustrious Wall Street Journal. This experience gives her personal insight into some of the things that these women went through. The stories were fascinating. Some of them disheartened me but some of them really made me excited for how far we've come. Most of the book is involved with telling individual women's stories but there was not much to hold them all together. I wanted a little more from the book, some sort of connection. This is a great book for learning more about what individual women have faced in marching towards success in the workplace!