The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

An incisive, intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women’s authority and power.

Every woman has a story of being underestimated, ignored, challenged, or patronized in the workplace. Maybe she tried to speak up in a meeting, only to be talked over by male colleagues. Or a client addressed her male subordinate instead of her. These stories remain true even for women at the top of their fields; in the U.S. Supreme Court, for example, female justices are interru...