Why Women Should Rule the World - by Dee Dee Myers (Paperback)

About the Book

The former White House Press Secretary offers a provocative and inspiring look at women and leadership, interweaving her own experiences working in the highest echelons of power. 8-page b&w photo insert.

From the Back Cover

If women ruled the world, politics would be more collegial, businesses would be more productive, and communities would be healthier. More women should lead--not because they are the same as men, but precisely because they are different.

Reflecting on her own tenure as White House press secretary and her work as a political analyst, media commentator, and former consultant to NBC's The West Wing, Dee Dee Myers blends memoir and social history with a call to action, as she assesses the crucial but long-ignored strengths that female leaders bring to the table. With intelligence, courage, candor, and wit, she looks at the obstacles women must overcome and the traps they must avoid on the path to success, and she challenges us to imagine a not-too-distant future with more women standing tall in the top ranks of politics, business, science, and academia.

Review Quotes

"Just like Dee Dee Myers herself this jewel of a book is sober minded, funny, and most certainly timely. . . . Myers makes a spirited case that "women power" is the most neglected political recourse in our arid times." - Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of The Great Deluge
"Part memoir, part state-of-the-feminist movement address, the book is at its best a conversation about Myers' odyssey from Clinton mouthpiece on the campaign trail to White House press secretary. . . . Great insider tales." - Chicago Sun-Times
"Smart, funny and tough." - George Stephanopoulos, ABC News, Chief Washington Correspondent and anchor of This Week