EP #88: The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Taken Less Seriously Than Men and What We Can Do About It with Mary Ann Sieghart

Sunni and Lisa are joined by Mary Ann Sieghart, the author of The
Authority Gap: Why Women Are Taken Less Seriously Than Men and
What We Can Do About It . 



Book description:  The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Taken
Less Seriously Than Men and What We Can Do About It .

Imagine living in a world in which you were routinely patronized
by women.


Imagine having your views ignored or your expertise frequently
challenged by them.


Imagine people always addressing the woman you are with before
you.


Now imagine a world in which the reverse of this is true.


The Authority Gap provides a startling perspective on the unseen
bias at work in our everyday lives, to reveal the scale of the
gap that still persists between men and women. Would you believe
that female US Supreme Court Justices are interrupted four times
more often than male ones...96 percent of the time by men? Or
that British parents, when asked to estimate their child's IQ,
will place their son at 115 and their daughter at 107?


Marshalling a wealth of data with precision and insight, and
including interviews with pioneering women such as Baroness Hale,
Mary Beard, and Bernadine Evaristo, Mary Ann Sieghart exposes
unconscious bias in this fresh, feminist take on how to address
and counteract systemic sexism in ways that benefit us all.