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Review of Ambition Is Not a Dirty Word By Debra Condren, Ph.D. ISBN: 978-0-7679-2314-9 There have been many books over the years about women in the workplace – most of them centered on the concept of women trying to balance work and family. Debra Condren places the theory that women need to keep family and home life either in balance or as a higher priority than work on its ear. Ambition Is Not a Dirty Word is a bible for professional women today. Condren offers a novel concept – women belong in the workplace, and if they avoid the typical self-sabotage behaviors (some of which are even offered as “good advice” in other books for professional women) that tend to cause women to devalue themselves. Ambition recognizes the current fallacies about women - such as the belief that women cannot be counted on in the high pressure positions in business because of their commitments to their families (or desires to create them.) The book is well organized, and lends itself to skipping ahead for specific advice for problems – but it does deserve at least one cover-to-cover read. Although it is written with primarily corporate professionals in mind, the lessons are still applicable to issues seen by women outside the corporate world. Ambition Is Not a Dirty Word will be useful in a myriad of classrooms, from Business Management to Industrial Psychology, but should also be suggested to every woman attending college today. |