Deep Work ... For Men

In our ultra-connected society, distractions are everything. In all this connectedness, we are losing the ability to work deeply, instead of getting sucked into the busyness of shallow tasks. Yet it's this increasingly rare deep work that has the biggest impact on your success. Cal Newport outlines the importance of working deeply and suggests strategies to eliminate and balance distractions in your work life.

While I agree with Newport's idea of deep work and think he has strong practical applications, realistically Newport's book should be title "Deep Work for Men." The gender inequality in Newport's work was glaringly obvious. I wanted to scream at the author that the only reason these men could do deep work is because of all the women doing the invisible work in their lives.

I know Newport didn't intentionally set out to write a gender-biased work, but the fact is, he did. Women are rarely mentioned at all in the book, and of the scores of examples of people successfully working deeply - only one I can recall is about a woman.