SPOTLIGHT: Rethinking Corporate Feminism with Reshma Saujani

A historic number of women left their jobs in 2021, resulting in
their lowest workforce participation since 1988. Author and
activist Reshma Saujani confronts the “big lie” of corporate
feminism in her book Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (And
Why It’s Different Than You Think), and she presents a bold plan
to address the systemic biases impacting working women. On this
episode of the Gartner Talent Angle, Reshma explains how the cost
of inaction ⁠— for families, the economy, and women themselves ⁠—
is too great to ignore. To fuel this urgency, she shares
strategies to create lasting change.


Reshma Saujani is a leading activist and the founder of Girls Who
Code and the Marshall Plan for Moms. She is the author of Pay Up:
The Future of Women and Work (And Why It’s Different Than You
Think). Reshma has spent more than a decade building movements to
fight for women and girls’ economic empowerment, working to close
the gender gap in the tech sector, and most recently advocating
for policies to support moms impacted by the pandemic. Reshma is
also the author of the international bestseller Brave, Not
Perfect, and her influential TED talk, “Teach girls, bravery not
perfection,” has more than five million views globally. Reshma
began her career as an attorney and Democratic organizer. In
2010, she surged onto the political scene as the first Indian
American woman to run for U.S. Congress. Reshma lives in New York
City with her husband, Nihal, their sons, Shaan and Sai, and
their bulldog, Stanley.


*This episode is an excerpt taken from our 2022 interview.