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The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It
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92/100Author:
Mary Ann Sieghart
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
February 8, 2022
An intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women's authority and power.
What The Reviewers Say
Sieghart draws together a remarkable wealth of research (the bibliography alone is 31 pages long) from academic studies and polling data to analyse and deconstruct this pervasive underestimation of women’s competence.
The book is enormously authoritative, knitting together academic studies with interviews of leading public figures.
... punchy and incisive.
... one of those books that takes something ubiquitous, something that perhaps many have become desensitised to, and slowly exposes its far-reaching implications.
