That's What She Said (eBook)

Going beyond the message of Lean In and The Confidence Code, Gannetts Chief Content Officer contends that to achieve parity in the office, women dont have to changemen doand in this inclusive and realistic handbook, offers solutions to help professionals solve gender gap issues and achieve parity at work.Companies with more women in senior leadership perform better by virtually every financial measure, and women employees help boost creativity and can temper risky behaviorsuch as the financial gambles behind the 2008 economic collapse. Yet in the United States, ninety-five percent of Fortune 500 chief executives are men, and women hold only seventeen percent of seats on corporate boards. More men are reaching across the gender divide, genuinely trying to reinvent the culture and transform the way we work together. Despite these good intentions, fumbles, missteps, frustration, and misunderstanding continue to inflict real and lasting damage on womens careers.What can the Enron scandal teach us about the way men and women communicate professionally? How does brain circuitry help explain mens fear of womens emotions at work? Why did Kimberly Clark blindly have an all-male team of executives in charge of their Kotex tampon line? In Thats What She Said, veteran media executive Joanne Lipman raises these intriguing questions and more to find workable solutions that individual managers, organizations, and policy makers can employ to make work more equitable and rewarding for all professionals.Filled with illuminating anecdotes, data from the most recent relevant studies, and stories from Lipmans own journey to the top of a male-dominated industry, Thats What She Said is a book about success that persuasively shows why empowering women as true equals is an essential goal for us alland offers a roadmap for getting there.