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  • The Authority Gap

  • Why Women Are Taken Less Seriously Than Men and What We Can Do About It
  • By: Mary Ann Sieghart
  • Narrated by: Mary Ann Seighhart
  • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (32 ratings)

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The Authority Gap

By: Mary Ann Sieghart
Narrated by: Mary Ann Seighhart
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Publisher's summary

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.

©2021 Mary Ann Sieghart (P)2022 Ascent Audio
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Excellent information

It’s too bad that there is still so much discrimination in our world ….. more people need to read books like this…

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Awareness is the first step to changing

speaking facts and solutions to change distorted beliefs about women
great job Mary! I would love to meet you

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A must read

Despite being one who has been a female executive, promoted women, and studied racism and unconscious bias fairly extensively, I learned many important facts from this book. I especially enjoyed the wide variety of women leaders interviewed and the linkages around the negative impact to society, not just women, when misogyny prevails. I was appalled to learn of the indoctrination of young boys into misogynistic thinking and shocked by the incredibly harmful comments on blogs and emails -bullying, threatening and more. And finally, I appreciated all the easily doable actions we all can take. Parents, women and men would benefit from reading this book. Wouldn’t it be an interesting experiment to have teen girls AND boys read it and discuss?

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Must Read/Listen For All

The author integrates studies and personal stories to best demonstrate the gap that exists between the treatment of men and women, comparing many cultures and races across the globe. There is too much information on this subject to put into one book and I found myself still wanting more when I finished. If not already published or in the works, I'd like to see this author or their contemporaries continue to publish research and insight into this topic so we can continue to improve our local societies. We've got to start there.

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Presented smartly with touches of humor

Most women will feel this book deep in her bones to be a factual representation of what it’s actually like for working women. Especially those in male-dominated careers.
I laughed out loud a few times because Ms. Sieghart’s timely examples happened to me only last Tuesday, yesterday, and this morning.
This is also the first book on this subject that is easier to recommend to my male colleagues. Well done!

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Sexist, dishonest, and destructive

Blatant sexism slanted against men and in favor of women.
Twisting facts, manipulating statistics and tortured logic.
Disasterous and erroneous conclusions just as flawed as the reasoning provided.

This women is dangerous not because of her ambition but because of the moral and intellectual violations she is willing to commit in her ideological pursuit of power.

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