In This Together: How Successful Women Support Each Other in Work and Life

by Nancy D. O'Reilly

Thoughts, advice, and stories from 40 successful women across a variety of careers—from authors to actresses, CEOs and professors—encouraging women to support each other in the workplace and in life—along with action plans on how all women can work together to break free from the binds of gender inequality.

Women worldwide are breaking their silence—coming forward against the men that have oppressed and abused them in the #MeToo movement. It’s an exciting, liberating moment time of female empowerment—but now we have to relearn how to connect with each other.

Instead of supporting each other through the challenges of a traditionally male-dominated working world, millions of women have experienced the polar opposite. Studies show that 30% of workplace bullies are female—employing tactics such as cyber bullying, verbal attacks, gossiping, and shunning to use against each other—and many women have garnered “mean girl” reputations as competitive and unsupportive in the workplace.

Inside the galvanizing In This Together, 40 successful and eminent women from a wide range of fields show us how much we can achieve if we embrace our collective power and strength, instead of competing against each other—such as learning new skills to advance in our careers and ultimately earn more money, working to dramatically increase the number of women in leadership positions, and even recruiting men to take up workplace equality as their own impassioned cause.

Empowering, stirring, and actionable, In This Together is an indispensable addition to every modern woman’s arsenal in our continued fight for the opportunities we deserve.

Genres: Nonfiction, Womens, Feminism

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2019

Reviews

[Emily Schoone · Rating 3 out of 5]

Instructional and practical guide to navigating the work place, especially for younger women. But many of the ideas were simply recycled and quoted broadly, so it read more like a blog than a book to me.

[Tawnya Sanders · Rating 5 out of 5]

I worked in nursing and was not sure in certain ways how this book applied to my life. I am very happy to have read it. It helped me clear up some ideas about why woman choose to be enemies. I still don't understand how grown women don't see or care when they are pushing other women down to lift them selves or out of fear that their is not enough room for all women at the top. Even though nursing is a woman dominated occupation they are quick to find fault and slow to make allies. I think every woman could benefit from reading this book. Complicit bias was not even part of my vocabular before this book.

[Megan McGann · Rating 3 out of 5]

I would recommend skipping the first four chapters and starting at Part 2 if you want to get to the information. The first part is simply stating facts and figures about equality and lack there of. Equality continues to be talked about throughout the book so you won’t miss much if you know anything about current statistics. I enjoyed some of the tips and the fact that Nancy mentioned several times that women of color are affected much more white women. I would read this book again.

[Abby Omdahl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very well put together and offers many resources for more information. O'Reilly organizes ideas for women and makes it seem easy to ask for what you need and it makes moving up the ladder seem much less overwhelming.

[Monique · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing resource for support of women working together to make things happen.

[Becky · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm not in the corporate workplace so I couldn't identify with a chunk of the book, but it's a great guide for a woman who wants to but is unsure how to gain equality at work.