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Title: A Woman Understanding the Man's World
Review: This book was recommended to me, and I am passing on the favour by recommending it to others. The book can help a woman understand her subordinate position at work or at home and yet can help a man understand the frustration and anger a woman would feel working in a patriarchal society. By taking the fairy tale, "Rumpelstiltskin," Mary Loomis explains the way a woman must reject her inner sense in insecurity and of being second best. While all of this sounds decidedly feminist, the book is one of the simplest explanations of the dynamics of women working in large corporations, government institutions, and other hierarchically organized social networks. There is no male bashing at all, but, instead, a discussion of how a woman's nature is at odds with a patriarchal society. In fact, the book tells of how much of a relief for men understanding all of this can be. In the end, the book talks of how women, not men, need to change.
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