How Not To Be A Doormat (Little Book Series of Emotional Health for Emotional Wealth 17)

Assertiveness can be learned. It does not mean that you can get what you want all the time. At least by being able to ask for what you want you have a chance of getting it. All too often an inability to be assertive comes from parents who swung from being passive to aggressive or just being passive aggressive themselves.

If a child is bullied at school or generally in childhood they do not grow up with the skills they need to prevent this happening to them at work or in their adult life.

Women are particularly prone to be "doormats" (getting walked all over) as they traditionally were socialised to be obediant, compliant and not to have a mind of their own. It is time this changed.