The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do about It

by Mary Ann Sieghart

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393867757
• ISBN13: 9780393867756
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.3"