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A provocative and rigorously-researched book which seeks to interrogate our unconscious biases in detail, to look at the way they affect not only how business, politics and other institutions function, but how we function socially in our day-to-day lives.

About the Author

Mary Ann Sieghart 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 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 has chaired the Social Market Foundation think tank and sits on numerous boards.

Reviews

Here is a brilliant manifesto explaining why women are still so underestimated and overlooked in today's world, but how we can also be hopeful for change.
*Philippa Perry*

Just in case anyone still thinks the patriarchy is a figment of feminist imagination, this book will prove otherwise. Everyone needs to read The Authority Gap because in order to change our culture, we need to fully recognise the problem.
*Bernadine Evaristo*

An impassioned, meticulously argued and optimistic call to arms for anyone who cares about creating a fairer society.
*Observer*

Persuasive, arresting, punchy and incisive.
*The Sunday Times*

Crackling with controlled anger, it features some eye-popping stories and a stellar cast of interviewees, from presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton and former Danish prime minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt to the novelist Bernardine Evaristo. Buy it for any woman ever talked over in a meeting, or patronised by a man who knows less than them.
*Guardian Best Political Books of 2021*