Manage or Managing

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Manage or Managing

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Hi,
I would like to know if the title of the book "The women's guide to managing men" is all right. Should it not be "The women's guide to manage men"?
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No, correct as written.

After 'guide to....' it is a gerund, not an infinitive, construction that is required.
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