IV. Sample Chapters

Chapter One: Lean Back at Home.

“Lean Back” reveals the subtle ways men sabotage themselves and their marriages by doing home-improvement projects. Every time we fix a leaky faucet or hang a shelf in her laundry room, what we really say to our female is: “I don’t think you are capable of doing this.” Solution: “Lean Back (And Relax!).” Soon your gal will happily be replacing the attic insulation and, better still, thanking you for letting her find the special feeling of pride and self-worth that come with a job well done. Chapter One includes 10 suggested “Do It Herself” (D.I.H.) projects.

Chapter Two: Lean Back at Work

As Miss Sandberg points out, working girls often act self-effacing and subordinate so they do not appear threatening to men. “Lean Back” offers businessmen concrete ideas about how to be (a) less threatening and (b) more empowering. Example:

If your secretary or Gal Friday says: “I’m sorry, but I cannot possibly scan every page of that census report by 10 o’clock.”

You should say: “Of course you can, honey!”

Chapter Three: Lean Back in Bed

Here I will include fully illustrated, anatomically accurate diagrams, which will allow women to overcome their concerns of appearing too aggressive.

V. Marketing Plan

Plans include Sheryl Sandberg sorority-style “Lean-In Circles,” at which men can help other men “Lean Back (and Relax!)” These Lean Back Boys Club meetings will be conducted during business hours at off-site cigar bars, golf courses and Hooters. A separate franchise, the Lean Back “Good Old Boys” Club, will be composed exclusively of Fortune 500 C.E.O.’s, 96 percent of whom are men. Acting as mentors, these leaders will forge a powerful pipeline, ensuring a future in which women will finally get to work twice as hard as men, and men will finally get to “Lean Back (and Relax!).”