Ep 99 - The authority gap with Mary Ann Sieghart
Mary Ann Sieghart has been on my dream guest list for a while so I’m very excited to share this interview with you. Mary Ann is the author of the best-selling book The Authority Gap: Why We Still Take Women Less Seriously Than Men, a BBC Radio 4 presenter, speaker and advocate for women’s equality in the workplace.
We discuss:
- The impact of the book The Authority Gap and why it’s so important that male leaders read it
- Conversational manspreading
- Whether woman need to change how they behave to be seen as more competent
- Unconscious bias about women, by women and how to be aware of it
- What men can gain by narrowing the authority gap
Mary Ann shares so many fascinating studies that demonstrate the authority gap in action which are both surprising and validating for women's experiences at work.
MORE ABOUT MARY ANN
Mary Ann Sieghart is the author of the best-selling book The Authority Gap: Why We Still Take Women Less Seriously Than Men. She spent 20 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 programmes on BBC Radio 4, such as Start the Week, Profile, Analysis, Fallout 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 is a Visiting Professor at King’s College London, Chair of the judges for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2022 and sits on numerous boards.
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- The Authority Gap: Why We Still Take Women Less Seriously Than Men
- Vist Mary Ann’s website
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- Follow on Twitter
- Connect on Instagram
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As well as coaching women leaders to have more influence, make more impact and be kinder to themselves in my programme Influence & Impact, I also give keynote speeches and trainings to organisations wanting to develop women in leadership roles.
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