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Author
Publisher
Virago Press, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Equal is an inspiring, personal and campaigning book about how we should and can fight for equal pay and other kinds of equality in the workplace, by former BBC China editor Carrie Gracie. Gracie joined a group of high-profile BBC women who challenged the national broadcaster over equal pay after enforced disclosures revealed huge gaps between top men and women. Gracie had insisted on equal pay at the time of her China posting, and after trying with...
Author
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Edition.
Language
English
Description
"Too often, women hesitate to take career risks due to systemic workplace inequity. This book teaches women how to take the right risks for lasting career success. Many women enter the workforce feeling like they can never make a mistake, and as a result,they don't take risks in the crucial early stages of their careers. Women, and BIPOC women especially, are disproportionally penalized for mistakes, so any risk begins to feel like a bad risk. A 2019...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
It was the 1960s-a time of economic boom and social strife. Young women poured into the workplace, but the "Help Wanted" ads were segregated by gender and the "Mad Men" office culture was rife with sexual stereotyping and discrimination.
Lynn Povich was one of the lucky ones, landing a job at Newsweek, renowned for its cutting-edge coverage of civil rights and the "Swinging Sixties." Nora Ephron, Jane Bryant Quinn, Ellen Goodman, and Susan Brownmiller...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood's most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move, and weaponizing an account of abuse...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Language
English
Description
When Lois Jenson, a single mother on welfare, accepted a job at the local iron mine in 1975, she hadn't considered that she would be entering a male-dominated society that would fiercely resist the inclusion of women. This prejudice was born out in the relentless, brutal harassment of every female miner, until Lois, devastated by the abuse, found the courage to sue the company. This is the thrilling true story of how one woman pioneered and won the...
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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When three men announce that they are suing the Rosato & DiNunzio law firm for reverse sex discrimination - claiming that they were not hired because they were men - Mary DiNunzio and Bennie Rosato are outraged. To make matters worse, their one male employee, John Foxman, intends to resign, claiming that there is some truth to this case. The plaintiffs' lawyer is Nick Machiavelli, who has already lost to Mary once and is now back with a vengeance...
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