Knowing Your Value

This month I've been reading "Knowing Your Value: Women, Money and Getting What You're Worth" by Mika Brzezinski, MSNB Morning Joe's co-host. Prompted by her own experiences, Mika interviews a number of prominent women across a wide range of industries on their experience moving up in their particular industries and structuring their career paths. Mika reveals how these women, including such impresarios as White House star Valerie Jarrett, comedian Susie Essman, writer and director Nora Ephron, Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, and broadcaster Joy Behar, navigated the inevitable roadblocks that are unique to women.

My review of this book is lukewarm. I like the idea of the book and what she is trying to get across to women and the readers, but she really just scratches the surface of the issue and in the 200 pages of this book she doesn't dig deep enough. I was very intrigued by this book and Mika's personal experience and her interviews. As the young female professional I consider myself to be this book was written for me. I identify completely with the feeling of "your lucky to have this job" which is mentioned a lot throughout this book as one of the things that holds women back from reaching their career potential.

Although this book doesn't have all of the answers it still is very relatable to many women. It raises points that we need to address as women working up the career ladder. Has anyone check out the book yet? Let me know your thoughts.

--Krystal