Know Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You're Worth (Revised Edition)

by Mika Brzezinski

Overview

The bestselling motivational guide that TheAtlantic.com calls "a rallying cry for women to get the money they deserve."

Why are women so often overlooked and underpaid? What are the real reasons men get raises more often than women? How can women ask for — and actually get—the money, the job, the recognition they deserve?

Prompted by her own experience as cohost of Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski asked a wide range of successful women to share the critical lessons they learned while moving up in their fields. Power players such as Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, Senator Elizabeth Warren, Harvard's Victoria Budson, comedian Susie Essman, and many more shared their surprising personal stories. They spoke candidly about why women are paid less and the pitfalls women face — and play into.

Now expanded to address gender dynamics in the #MeToo era, Know Your Value blends compelling personal stories with the latest research on why many women don't negotiate their compensation, why negotiating aggressively usually backfires, and what can be done about it.

For any woman who has ever wondered if her desire to be liked can be a liability (yes), if there is a way to reclaim her contribution after it's been co-opted in a meeting (yes), and if there are strategies men use to get ahead that women should too (yes!), Know Your Value provides vital advice to help women be their own best advocates.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781602865945
Publisher:	Hachette Books
Publication date:	09/25/2018
Edition description:	Revised Edition
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	69,933
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Mika Brzezinski is a co-host of Morning Joe, an MSNBC anchor, author of the New York Times bestsellers All Things at Once, Knowing Your Value, and Obsessed. and founder of the women's empowerment community, "Know Your Value". She also served as a visiting fellow at the Harvard Institute of Politics. She is the mother of two daughters.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction to the Revised Edition: A Know Your Value Moment, Almost Missed 1

1 Success, Failure, and Knowing Your Value: How It All Began 11

2 Get Out of Your Way: Women as Their Own Worst Enemies 33

3 What's a Woman Worth? The Gender Wage Gap and the Perception of Value 51

4 Acceptable Behavior: A Cautionary Tale About Women Acting Like Men in the Workplace 67

5 What Men Know: We Can't Act Like Them, but We Can Learn from Them 87

6 At the Bargaining Table: Table Manners and Tactical Maneuvers 103

7 Allies and Enemies: A New Appreciation of Men in the Workplace, and a Warning About Women 123

8 Motherhood: The Game Changer 139

9 Looks Matter: Own Who You Are 159

10 #METOO at Work 185

11 Starting a Movement: The Progression of Know Your Value 205

Index 229

What People are Saying About This

broadcast journalist and bestselling author of The Confidence Code - Katty Kay

“Mika’s Know Your Value asks the essential question–are you getting the money, respect, responsibility you deserve?–and shows you how to get it.”

Editorial Reviews

"Mika's Know Your Value asks the essential question-are you getting the money, respect, responsibility you deserve?-and shows you how to get it."—Katty Kay, broadcast journalist and bestselling author of The Confidence Code

"With books and a constellation of related content under the banner 'Know Your Value,' . . . [Mika Brzezinski is now a] guru for career women."
—New York Magazine

"Mika Brzezinski... is on a mission to help women know their worth-and claim it. Her book-turned-movement is giving women across the country the support, knowledge and tools they need to successfully advocate for themselves."
—Forbes

"Mika's book reminds us that women are great at asking and advocating for others, but not so great when it comes to advocating for ourselves.... I observed the success women had when they used Mika's tools and strategies. I heard them speaking with more positive self-talk and saying things that reflected a better understanding of the workplace.... Mika's core message is: Get clear about your value at your job. The tool of positive self-talk supports us in this effort. It helps us claim our strengths, accept our weaknesses, put things in perspective and sustain a more open and optimistic point of view."—Medium.com

Praise for Mika's previous titles:


"A rallying cry for women to get the money they deserve."—TheAtlantic.com

"An in-depth look at how women today achieve their deserved recognition and financial worth."

—Today.com

"Very timely.... Champions equality for women, particularly in the workplace."

—Women's Wear Daily

"Part memoir and part manifesto...chronicles the author's struggles as a woman in the workforce-and outlines the dos and don'ts of achieving equal pay."
—The Daily Beast

"Provides much-needed perspective.... A thoughtful look at how women can quit getting in their own way."—Publishers Weekly

"An inspiring evaluation of the potential women have to create fully productive lives at work and at home."—Kirkus Reviews

"The Morning Joe co-host has been through it all, making the advice in her book Know Your Value incredibly, well, valuable... [C]andid and illuminating."

—Marie Claire

"Mika...shares valuable insight on gender bias in the Trump era, how #TimesUp and #MeToo have changed office politics, why women need to stop trash talking other women on the rise and tactical maneuvers to use at the bargaining table."—DC Refined

From the Publisher

★ 10/01/2018
Cohost of MSNBC's Morning Joe, Brzezinski uses her own experience and that of other prominent women to teach women how to communicate their value effectively in business and other areas of life. Honestly admitting to the fears that held her from speaking up, the author describes being her own worst enemy when it came to relating her worth. She tackles issues such as acceptable behavior and clothing and presents tactics for succeeding at the bargaining table. In essence, she encourages women to respect themselves first and to learn from but not necessarily act like men. VERDICT Excellent advice for women just starting their careers as well as seasoned veterans.

Library Journal

Brzezinski knew that her role as cohost of the MSNBC show Morning Joe was integral to the show's success, and yet she was getting paid a fraction of what her male counterparts were. The network was certainly to blame, but so, she realized, was she; this was just the last in a long run of jobs where she'd seen a salary discrepancy, worked long hours to prove herself, got angry at herself for not earning more money and respect, and stormed off and got a new job—only to repeat the pattern. Wondering if other successful women also consistently undermined and undercut themselves, she interviews power women—Obama senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, Tina Brown, Nora Ephron, Suze Orman, and Facebook CEO Sheryl Sandberg. Brzezinski illustrates how women undervalue themselves in the workplace—excessive gratitude "just to have the opportunity," not negotiating their contracts, taking on extra work for which they're not being paid, and asking for raises in ways in which they're virtually certain to be turned down. While these insights are familiar, the celebrity angle provides much-needed perspective—if even the most successful women undervalue themselves out of a desire to be liked, as Joy Behar admits, then clearly the rest of us accepting 77 cents on our male colleagues' dollar are not alone. A thoughtful look at how women can quit getting in their own way. (May)

Publishers Weekly