Category: Women Publisher: Adams Media Corp.
ISBN-10: 1558505008
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 192
Copyright: Jun 1 1993
Agonito explores the "nice girl" persona women are conditioned to live from earliest childhood and the resulting the internal and external barriers they face in their struggles to succeed in the workplace. Using autobiographical stories and personal accounts of women she has worked with in her years as a gender issues consultant/trainer, Agonito offers practical strategies for overcoming the nice girl mentality that holds women back and building the self-confidence needed to win on their own terms. "Highly recommended." The Bookwatch
No More Nice Girl is a compelling series of personal accounts illuminating the barriers women face today and revealing the connections between the seemingly disparate events in their personal and professional lives. Ironically, it is often the day-to-day obstacles, rather than the larger issues, that weigh women down. Sometimes these obstacles are blatant, more often they are subtle, but always they are undermining of self-esteem.
At the heart of women's struggles lies the "nice girl" persona, conditioned in females from earliest childhood in countless messages and expected by those around her. It demands that women please others, put everyone else first and deny their themselves at every turn in order to adjust to everyone else's agenda. The result is that women are set up to fail at every turn, to deny their legitimate needs as human beings and to become victims rather than control their own destiny. People like "nice girls," but liking them is not the same as respecting them.
Dr. Agonito not only explores the internal and external barriers women face in life and in the workplace, she offers practical strategies for dealing with those obstacles. Booklist calls the book "Sharp and articulate." Library Journal says of it, "Highly practical, with many examples of nonconfrontational but effective ways to deal with incidents that are all too common." The Bookwatch writes, "Highly recommended." The Feminist Bookstore News says, "Easily readable, this book is a must for any woman who is tired of being invisible, oppressed or disempowered in her professional life."
