Must Reads: 17 Great Books From Women Leaders for 2024
It's time to get your reading list ready and Take The Lead is here with recommendations from 17 authors. The books range from memoir to essays, historical overviews and several practical guides to being the best leader you can be.
In her first book, Legacy: A Black
Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine, author, ER physician and former professor of medicine, Uche Blackstock writes about growing up in Brooklyn with her twin sister, Oni, watching their mother, a Harvard Medical School grad, deal with patents and workloads. She and her sister became the first mother and daughters legacy from Harvard Medical School, and she writes of the inequities in healthcare and health disparities in a country where only two percent of all U.S. Physicians are Black women. Blackstock is the Founder and
CEO of Advancing Health Equity.
The Power to Care for Your Mental and Emotional Wellbeing While Trying to Conceive By Josephine
Atluri
I created my modern day family of seven children via international adoption, In Vitro Fertilization, and surrogacy. When my partner and I began our family creation journey 18 years ago, we didn’t have the benefit of support groups whether in person, online or via social media. Thus, we felt isolated and stigmatized in our inability to conceive children and decision to pursue alternative methods of becoming parents.
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