On Monday 3rd March 2025 PropelHer’s Book Club will discussed Women Who Work Too Much: Break Free from Toxic Productivity and Find Your Joy by Tamu Thomas.
In this summary of Women Who Work Too Much by Tamu Thomas. I’ll be briefly summarising the book to help you to make a decision about whether you should buy a copy of the book for yourself.
Women Who Work Too Much is split into an introduction, nine chapters and a conclusion.
In the Introduction Tamu sets the scene by exploring the modern day obsession with productivity “productivity is the new religion”, how many are operating in a state of toxic productivity and the forces “the oppressive trinity” that has made so many women find themselves in this position,
Then in the main body of the book Tamu shares how we have ended up in a place where so many women are trapped in toxic productivity. She shares over time work has changed and what is expected of women has changed, and slowly to surely we’ve accepted this as the norm.
Next, the book focuses on helping you to become friends with your nervous system and doing some of the inner work to help you get to know, understand and meet the real you. This part of the book is filled with exercises for you to try for yourself.
Then the focus switches to helping you find a better, more natural, way of being productive. You’ll learn about knowing your bandwidth and having a healthy life ethic. You’ll also learn more about the importance of rest of what the seven types of rest are.
Before the book ends, in Chapter Tamu encourages the reader to make a life manifesto so they have something to live by going forward.
That’s it! You now have an idea about what you can expect to find inside of Women Who Work Too Much: Break Free from Toxic Productivity and Find Your Joy by Tamu Thomas.
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Women Who Work Too Much: Break Free from Toxic Productivity and Find Your Joy by Tamu Thomas was read as part of PropelHer’s Book Club. PropelHer’s Book Club is an online non-fiction book club for ambitious women that meet monthly. Every month PropelHer’s Book Club reads a different book to help ambitious women concentrate on their personal development and professional success. You can see what else we have read so far here. If you would like to join PropelHer’s Book Club you can find full details here.
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