5 Inspiring Books For Women In Business

Books For Women Entrepreneurs

Mousumi Dhar
5 min readMar 28, 2022
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The number of women in business remains insufficient compared to the group of male managers and founders. Fortunately, although these figures are not yet too close, female entrepreneurship is on the rise.

Even more exciting is that 71% of new female businesses are owned by women of color!

These are some inspiring facts, right?

The amount of women in business has been steadily increasing over the previous twenty decades. This positive tendency is something many will really like to see continue to develop.

To stay motivated and put the women business leaders of other rock stars on your map, I’ve broken down some of the best business books written by women.

1. Get Over Your Damn Self by Romi Neustadt
The No-BS Blueprint to building a life-changing business

If you want to learn how to dispel doubt, reorient your mentality with your goals and finally strike a balance between professional freedom and flexibility, this is the right one for you.

Now she has an empire of direct sales and marketing of book blogs and wants to share how she cultivates the life she wants.

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Buy from: Amazon India | Amazon US/Canada/UK

2. Year of Yes by Shonda Rhimes
How to dance it out, stand in the sun and be your own person

In this book, the creator of grey anatomy and scandals speaks of her rise from shy Hollywood rookie to a visionary.
She writes,

Stand up in front of people.
Let them see you. Speak. Be heard.
Go ahead and have the dry mouth.
Let your heart beat so, so fast.
Watch everything move in slow motion.
So what. You what?
You pass out, you die, you poop?
No.

You take it in.

Shonda Rhimes with her book and a smile.
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Buy from Amazon India | Amazon US/Canada/UK

3. What I Told My Daughter by Nina Tassler
Lessons from leaders on raising the next generation of empowered women

Although not directly related to business, Nina Tassler’s book presents a number of different women who share their advice with their daughters.

From love, friendship, and career advice, I tell my daughter to remind her what is really important in life, while imparting valuable guidance.

It is a moving book that makes her want to call her mother.

Nina Tassler with her book.
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Buy from Amazon India | Amazon US/Canada/UK

4. Broken Open by Elizabeth Lesser
How difficult times can help us grow

How many times in your life have you escaped from dreams for fear of failure?

Of course, fear keeps us away from pain and sacrifice, but it makes us more unlikely that we will succeed. Elizabeth Lesser teaches how to turn failure and turn it into an opportunity for positive growth.

Sexual discrimination and challenges make open reading more important.

Elizabeth Lesser with her book.
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5. Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
Women, work, and the will to lead

Ask most women whether they have the right to equality at work and the answer will be a resounding yes, but ask the same women whether they’d feel confident asking for a raise, a promotion, or equal pay, and some reticence creeps in.

In this book, Sheryl Sandberg — Facebook COO and one of Fortune magazine’s Most Powerful Women in Business — looks at what women can do to help themselves, and make the small changes in their life that can effect change on a more universal scale. She draws on her own experiences working in some of the world’s most successful businesses, as well as academic research, to find practical answers to the problems facing women in the workplace.

Learning to ‘lean in’ is about tackling the anxieties and preconceptions that stop women from reaching the top — taking a place at the table, and making yourself a part of the debate.

Sheryl Sandberg with her book.
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Buy from Amazon India | Amazon US/Canada/UK

Final Words

Girls in a company may encounter a greater degree of mistreatment and problems, but this might correspond to the increased level of societal obligation seen in female-owned companies.

There’s a tendency to assess their influence on the neighborhood within the financial value they produce.

There’s still a way to go concerning attaining equality in the number of men and women in entrepreneurship. However, these recent months are demonstrating that giving more girls the chance and help to begin is all that is required for them to grow.

These five books are very different, but they have one common feature: promoting radical acceptance of who you are and taking advantage of what it gives you.

The cliche is true: “You are your greatest enemy.”

When we learn to stop fighting, we find a chance to thrive, and that’s what these books can do for you.

An extended version of this article can be found at https://mousumidhar.com/24-inspiring-books-for-women-in-business-by-women/. If you are interested in more such articles on different books and their gist, you may visit my personal blog here.

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