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Pay up, the future of women and work (and why it's different than you think), Reshma Saujani

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Pay up, the future of women and work (and why it's different than you think), Reshma Saujani

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-215)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Pay up

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Reshma Saujani

Sub title

the future of women and work (and why it's different than you think)

Summary

We told women that to break glass ceilings and succeed in their careers, all they needed to do is dream big, raise their hands, and lean in. But data tells a different story. Historic numbers of women left their jobs in 2021, resulting in their lowest workforce participation since 1988. Women's unemployment rose to nearly fifteen percent, and globally women lost over $800 billion in wages. Fifty-one percent of women say that their mental health has declined, while anxiety and depression rates have skyrocketed. In this urgent and rousing call to arms, Reshma Saujani dismantles the myth of "having it all" and lifts the burden we place on individual women to be primary caregivers, and to work around a system built for and by men. The time has come, she argues, for innovative corporate leadership, government intervention, and sweeping culture shift; it's time to Pay Up. Through powerful data and personal narrative, Saujani shows that the cost of inaction--for families, for our nation's economy, and for women themselves--is too great to ignore. She lays out four key steps for creating lasting change: empower working women, educate corporate leaders, revise our narratives about what it means to be successful, and advocate for policy reform

Table Of Contents

Prologue: The big lie -- Introduction: We (I) screwed up -- part 1. The open secret of women and work: Something has to give ; The Marshall Plan for moms -- part 2. How did we get here?: From Rosie the Riveter to #Girlboss ; The counternarrative : women at home -- part 3. Paid in full : how we get there: The four forces of change ; Empower : changing our reality from within ; Educate : reimagining the workplace ; Revise : shifting the narrative in our culture ; Advocate : from rage to power -- Afterword

Target audience

adult

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Future of women and work (and why it's different than you think)

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