Women Workplace

The pain from discrimination and marginalization led me closer to my purpose of advocacy. I had two choices for responding to what happened to me. I could accept reality and do nothing about the fact that women of color in the workplace will be targeted for abuse and sidelined. My other choice was to use that frustration as a vehicle for warning others and providing tools to navigate those situations. I chose the latter and used this book as therapy to heal from the many years of trauma and prepare others for the journey ahead.

In this provocative book, Margaret Heffernan, former CEO and Fast Company contributor, fuses her own experience with that of hundreds of women to identify the biggest challenges and the best solutions that women face today. From VPs of Fortune 100 companies to entrepreneurs to women just starting their careers, she traces the patterns and themes underlying women's power, choices, love, sex, money, and other vital topics.

Susan Miller knows that her boss, Hoshi Tanaka, is a pig—a lecher whose obsession with women's behinds is the talk of her office. But when she is caught on video surveillance cameras sneaking pens and notebooks into her briefcase, she learns firsthand just what a lecher he really is. Right in the middle of a company meeting, Mr. Tanaka accuses her of theft, shows the video to everyone, calls her to the front of the room, and then subjects her to the most humiliating bare-bottom spanking imaginable—in front of everyone. Bare bottom? More like bare everything!