In The Power of a WOMAN WHO LEADS, Gail M. Hayes has the uncanny ability to address issues that are on a woman's heart and mind daily throughout her life. The word " leadership" is frightening to some women as in The Virtuous Woman in Proverbs 31 . So often women are named bossy, too maternal or just plain witchy women. Sadly, all of these negative terms make women afraid to even think about learning to lead for fear that people will say, she has lost all her femininity. I think it's wonderful and helpful that throughout the book the author writes about women whom most of us admire and maybe secretly have wished we could lead their type of life in our home, church, community or on our job. This is why I enjoyed reading the mini biographies in the book. Among those listed are Condoleeza Rice, Madame C. J. Walker, Anne Graham Lotz, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, etc. She also mentions women from our Bible History books or our American and European History books.