This book is no standard guide on ordinary women's topics. It relentlessly reflects on what slows down women's personal development regarding relationship, family and work - with razor-sharp analyses of hidden interactions and traumas. This book enables women to become aware of existing traps and obstacles, fears, feelings of guilt and other deep-seated emotions to help them leave behind restricting role attributions while power-balancing their lives between partner, children and career.

Women often consider themselves as the patriarchy's victims. Instead, the author identifies the fact that they lack awareness of their own power and the willingness to recognize it, the fact that women often neither admit nor accept their own power, as the prime reason why women remain stuck in traditional role models - for equality would require their powerful sovereignty. This book offers solutions to seemingly difficult situations, and experienced women leaders have their say. The recommendations on how to set a decisive course on the path to female empowerment leave readers with no room to retreat and hide behind familiar and often practiced counterarguments: This book encourages self-reflection as well as public discussion.

The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.

Martina Lackner is a psychologist, psychological psychotherapist, systemic coach, author and entrepreneur. In her publications (including 'Männer an der Seite erfolgreicher Frauen - Side by Side an die Spitze'), the Austrian-born author deals with psychological factors and mechanisms that help women to act as equals in partnerships and at work. She also shares her complex expertise in tutorials and as a sparring partner for women and men who want to get to the bottom of their own pitfalls: www.martinalackner.com.