Q&A: Author Julia Boorstin on How We Can Learn from Women Leaders

The book, which came out in October, is a corrective — where we’ve had bestsellers trumpeting the glorious genius of centuries of (male) titans of industry, she says, the literature on how women succeed has been … lacking. So over the past few years, she took up the challenge. When Women Lead charts the success against all odds — from the funding gap, to the lack of women’s health options, to the economic crises of the pandemic — of 60+ women leaders in business, politics, and beyond. It looks at how they succeeded, what they overcame — and how women can use those stories to reframe our own narratives for the better.  FOR MORE