Overview

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 US Supreme Court Justices are interrupted four times more often than male ones . . . 96% 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.

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Has some excellent comebacks, statistics, and arguments for the rest of us to use against the office sexists or to understand better the gap that harms even very successful women. -- Financial Times (London) The book is enormously authoritative, knitting together academic studies with interviews of leading public figures. -- Irish Independent (Dublin) What makes this an outstanding audiobook is not just the well-written content but also Sieghart's impeccable narration...a totally engaging listening experience...Well worth the listen. -- AudioFile

"Has some excellent comebacks, statistics, and arguments for the rest of us to use against the office sexists or to understand better the gap that harms even very successful women. -- ""Financial Times (London)"" The book is enormously authoritative, knitting together academic studies with interviews of leading public figures. -- ""Irish Independent (Dublin)"" What makes this an outstanding audiobook is not just the well-written content but also Sieghart's impeccable narration...a totally engaging listening experience...Well worth the listen. -- ""AudioFile"""

""Has some excellent comebacks, statistics, and arguments for the rest of us to use against the office sexists or to understand better the gap that harms even very successful women."" -- ""Financial Times (London)"" ""The book is enormously authoritative, knitting together academic studies with interviews of leading public figures."" -- ""Irish Independent (Dublin)"" ""What makes this an outstanding audiobook is not just the well-written content but also Sieghart's impeccable narration...a totally engaging listening experience...Well worth the listen."" -- ""AudioFile""

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Mary Ann Sieghart spent twenty years as assistant editor and columnist at the Times and won a large following for her columns on politics, economics, feminism, parenthood, and life in general. She has presented many programs on BBC Radio 4, such as Start the Week, Profile, Analysis, and One to One. She chaired the revival of The Brains Trust on BBC2 and recently spent a year as a visiting fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She has also chaired the Social Market Foundation think tank, sits on numerous boards, and is currently a visiting professor at King's College London. Mary Ann Sieghart spent twenty years as assistant editor and columnist at the Times and won a large following for her columns on politics, economics, feminism, parenthood, and life in general. She has presented many programs on BBC Radio 4, such as Start the Week, Profile, Analysis, and One to One. She chaired the revival of The Brains Trust on BBC2 and recently spent a year as a visiting fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She has also chaired the Social Market Foundation think tank, sits on numerous boards, and is currently a visiting professor at King's College London.

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