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The authority gap : why women are still taken less seriously than men, and what we can do about it / Mary Ann Sieghart.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2022Copyright date: ©2021Edition: First American editionDescription: viii, 375 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780393867756
  • 0393867757
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction: why Bart Simpson has more authority than Margaret Thatcher -- You don't have to read this chapter (unless you're a skeptic about the authority gap) -- The view from the other side: what we can learn about men and women from people who've lived as both -- The authority gap in action: if you could just let me fini- -- It's not a zero-sum game: we all gain from narrowing the authority gap -- The confidence trick: confidence is not the same as competence -- Conversational manspreading: how men hog the floor -- Changing our minds: how hard it is for women to exert influence -- Hello? Anyone there? Voices in the void -- Women do it too: how our reptilian brains work against us -- It's all around us: the world is framed by men -- Lady Macbeth meets Medusa: why do we hate women in power? -- Bias entangled: the busy intersection of prejudice -- All things bright and beautiful: or maybe if you're beautiful, you can't be bright? -- Shut your whore mouth! The dangers of having an opinion and a vagina -- No need to despair: we can narrow the authority gap in one generation.
Summary: "An incisive, intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women's authority and power. Every woman has a story of being underestimated, ignored, challenged, or patronized in the workplace. Maybe she tried to speak up in a meeting, only to be talked over by male colleagues. Or a client addressed her male subordinate instead of her. Despite the progress we've made toward equality, we still fail, more often than we might realize, to take women as seriously as men. In The Authority Gap, journalist Mary Ann Sieghart examines the wide-ranging implications of this critical gender bias. She explores its intersections with race and class biases and the measures we can take to bridge the gap. With precision and insight, she marshals a wealth of data from a variety of disciplines-including psychology, sociology, politics, and business-and interviews pioneering women like Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo and Janet Yellen."-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Every woman has a story of being underestimated, ignored, challenged, or patronized in the workplace. Maybe she tried to speak up in a meeting, only to be talked over by male colleagues. Or a client addressed her male subordinate instead of her. These stories remain true even for women at the top of their fields; in the U.S. Supreme Court, for example, female justices are interrupted four times more often than their male colleagues--and 96 percent of the time by men. Despite the progress we've made toward equality, we still fail, more often than we might realize, to take women as seriously as men.

In The Authority Gap, journalist Mary Ann Sieghart provides a startling perspective on the gender bias at work in our everyday lives and reflected in the world around us, whether in pop culture, media, school classrooms, or politics. With precision and insight, Sieghart marshals a wealth of data from a variety of disciplines--including psychology, sociology, political science, and business--and talks to pioneering women like Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo, renowned classicist Mary Beard, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen, and Hillary Clinton. She speaks with women from a range of backgrounds to explore how gender bias intersects with race and class biases.

Eye-opening and galvanizing, The Authority Gap teaches us how we as individuals, partners, parents, and coworkers can together work to narrow the gap. Sieghart exposes unconscious bias in this fresh feminist take on how to address and counteract systemic sexism in ways that benefit us all: men as well as women.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: why Bart Simpson has more authority than Margaret Thatcher -- You don't have to read this chapter (unless you're a skeptic about the authority gap) -- The view from the other side: what we can learn about men and women from people who've lived as both -- The authority gap in action: if you could just let me fini- -- It's not a zero-sum game: we all gain from narrowing the authority gap -- The confidence trick: confidence is not the same as competence -- Conversational manspreading: how men hog the floor -- Changing our minds: how hard it is for women to exert influence -- Hello? Anyone there? Voices in the void -- Women do it too: how our reptilian brains work against us -- It's all around us: the world is framed by men -- Lady Macbeth meets Medusa: why do we hate women in power? -- Bias entangled: the busy intersection of prejudice -- All things bright and beautiful: or maybe if you're beautiful, you can't be bright? -- Shut your whore mouth! The dangers of having an opinion and a vagina -- No need to despair: we can narrow the authority gap in one generation.

"An incisive, intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women's authority and power. Every woman has a story of being underestimated, ignored, challenged, or patronized in the workplace. Maybe she tried to speak up in a meeting, only to be talked over by male colleagues. Or a client addressed her male subordinate instead of her. Despite the progress we've made toward equality, we still fail, more often than we might realize, to take women as seriously as men. In The Authority Gap, journalist Mary Ann Sieghart examines the wide-ranging implications of this critical gender bias. She explores its intersections with race and class biases and the measures we can take to bridge the gap. With precision and insight, she marshals a wealth of data from a variety of disciplines-including psychology, sociology, politics, and business-and interviews pioneering women like Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo and Janet Yellen."-- Provided by publisher.

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