This is a story that largely focuses on women as they move through a business world that has been inhabited almost solely by men--up until now. It is set in the not too distant past, so there is none of what is shaping the landscape today. Not a president who has five children by three different women, a man who has bragged about sexually harassing women, and been buoyed up by those who too wish they could be what he is. This is back when the veneer that we might all share values under one nation was something we could believe in. That time is gone for the foreseeable future.
The book is not rendered irrelevant by those developments; rather its subtle,
powerfully ambivalent forays into what has been called second-wave feminism, the nature and
limits of co-operative action and the intersection between the political
and the personal can function as depth charges whose ripples continue to
rock our unstable little boats. This is about mentorship, relationships, where they take us and how we get there. Very enjoyable read.
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