Machiavelli for Women

By Stacey Vanek Smith,

Book cover of Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace

Book description

From the NPR host of The Indicator and correspondent for Planet Money comes an "accessible, funny, clear-eyed, and practical" (Sarah Knight, New York Times bestselling author) guide for how women can apply the principles of 16th-century philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli to their work lives and finally shatter the glass ceiling-perfect for…

Shepherd is reader supported. When you buy books, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Why read it?

1 author picked Machiavelli for Women as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Women in leadership are our nation’s superpower...the growth and development of our economy hinges on placing more female leaders into senior corporate executive and board roles to meet the talent shortage and inject a high level of emotional intelligence into corporate America. But we’ve experienced centuries of destructive cultural conditioning, messaging, and reinforcement.

This book helped me see through the assumptions we’ve created and move beyond them. In the United States, more bachelor's, law, and medical degrees are now going to females. Yet, 80% of CEOs are male, corporate boards are more than 80% male, and women still make roughly…

Want books like Machiavelli for Women?

Our community of 11,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like Machiavelli for Women.

Browse books like Machiavelli for Women

5 book lists we think you will like!

Interested in women's rights, women, and presidential biography?

Women's Rights 65 books
Women 639 books