Overview

Going beyond the message of Lean In and The Confidence Code, Gannett's Chief Content Officer contends that to achieve parity in the office, women don't have to change--men do--and in this inclusive and realistic audio handbook, offers solutions to help professionals solve gender gap issues and achieve parity at work. Companies with more women in senior leadership perform better by virtually every financial measure, and women employees help boost creativity and can temper risky behavior--such as the financial gambles behind the 2008 economic collapse. Yet in the United States, ninety-five percent of Fortune 500 chief executives are men, and women hold only seventeen percent of seats on corporate boards. More men are reaching across the gender divide, genuinely trying to reinvent the culture and transform the way we work together. Despite these good intentions, fumbles, missteps, frustration, and misunderstanding continue to inflict real and lasting damage on women's careers. What can the Enron scandal teach us about the way men and women communicate professionally? How does brain circuitry help explain men's fear of women's emotions at work? Why did Kimberly Clark blindly have an all-male team of executives in charge of their Kotex tampon line? In That's What She Said, veteran media executive Joanne Lipman raises these intriguing questions and more to find workable solutions that individual managers, organizations, and policy makers can employ to make work more equitable and rewarding for all professionals. Filled with illuminating anecdotes, data from the most recent relevant studies, and stories from Lipman's own journey to the top of a male-dominated industry, That's What She Said is about success that persuasively shows why empowering women as true equals is an essential goal for us all--and offers a roadmap for getting there.

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9781538501030

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""A sweeping, salient survey of the gender gap in corporate America...A solid start to an essential, gender-inclusive conversation."" -- ""Kirkus Reviews"" ""It's great we are talking the talk, but Joanne Lipman's cutting-edge research and razor-sharp advice will help men and women alike start walking the walk (toward a more equitable workplace)."" -- ""Katie Couric"" ""Lipman...makes a bold statement with this important book examining biases favoring men in business...Challenges both men and women to examine their own prejudices and actively reshape work cultures to be more welcoming to women."" -- ""Publishers Weekly (starred review)""

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Joanne Lipman has authored a pioneering journalism career. She was the first female Deputy Managing Editor at the Wall Street Journal, where she created the Weekend Journal and Personal Journal sections and oversaw the creation of the paper's Saturday edition. She was founding editor-in-chief of Conde Nast Portfolio magazine. And she served as Editor-in-Chief at USA Today and Chief Content Officer at Gannet. Under her editorship, she led these organizations to numerous awards, including six Pulitzer Prizes. Dubbed ""star editor"" by CNN, she is author of the No. 1 national bestseller That's What She Said, about closing the gender gap, and coauthor of the music memoir Strings Attached. She is a lecturer at Yale University's Department of Political Science and was the Peretsman Scully Distinguished Journalism Fellow at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study. Lipman is a contributor to CNBC. Caroline Slaughter is a voice talent and audiobook narrator.

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