The Athena Doctrine is an Entertainment Weekly Best Seller at #7 on their Non-Fiction top Ten. The editors say, "No.1 best-selling author Sheryl Sandberg would agree with these guys, who call for more estrogen in the workplace. Gerzema and D'Antonio use data to argue that typically "feminine" traits–like collaboration, expressiveness and intuition–– are what's needed in the modern workplace rather than a masculine, winner-tak-all mentality".