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A WATERSTONES BEST POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEARA TIMES BEST PHILOSOPHY AND IDEAS BOOK OF 2021A GUARDIAN BEST POLITICS BOOKS OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 BUSINESS BOOK AWARDA brilliant manifesto explaining why women are still so underestimated and overlooked in todays world, but how we can also be hopeful for change Philippa PerryAn impassioned, meticulously argued and optimistic call to arms for anyone who cares about creating a fairer society ObserverImagine living in a world in which you were routinely patronised by women. Imagine having your views ignored or your expertise frequently challenged by them. Imagine people always addressing the woman you are with before you. Now imagine a world in which the reverse of this is true. The Authority Gap provides a startling perspective on the unseen bias at work in our everyday lives, to reveal the scale of the gap that still persists between men and women. Would you believe that US Supreme Court Justices are interrupted four times more often than male ones... 96% of the time by men? Or that British parents, when asked to estimate their childs IQ will place their son at 115 and their daughter at 107?Marshalling a wealth of data with precision and insight, and including interviews with pioneering women such as Baroness Hale, Mary Beard and Bernadine Evaristo, Mary Ann exposes unconscious bias in this fresh feminist take on how to address and counteract systemic sexism in ways that benefit us all. Includes interviews with... | Mary Ann Sieghart The Authority Gap : Why women are still taken less seriously than