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I'm Maura Aaron's Mealy and this is the anxious achiever, the show that looks at the intersection of mental health and work and how we can all do both better.

Double standards abound in a lot of aspects of our lives, and that includes the working world.

I know, I know you're shocked. Leaders, though, corporate cultures might say they value one thing.

But those same standards aren't applied to all people.

When I think about how far we've come in the space I work in, workplace mental health, we've made real positive change.

Every day I see the narrative furthered, people talking about mental health, we've made real positive change. Every day I see the narrative furthered,

people talking about mental health and work from a perspective of strength and success.

And frankly, every time I see a man cry on TV, I feel a little bit more hopeful.

But there's still bias. And today we'll zero in on gender in particular, because while

more and more leaders who are men might be joining the conversation around mental health and

showing their feelings, there's still a lot of stereotyping that goes on when a woman is dealing

with something emotionally and mentally straining on the job.

My guest today is Marianne Cooper.

She's a sociologist at Stanford, where she focuses on women's leadership, gender,

DEI, economic insecurity, and more.

And if you haven't heard of her, you likely know her work.

Marianne was the lead researcher on the now infamous, but very famous book by Cheryl Sandberg, Lean In, and she co-authors the Lean In and McKinsey study

on women in the workplace.

Just as we get going here broadly broadly, what's changed and what hasn't for women at work since 2013?

I think not as much has changed as we all would have liked.

So I was thinking about, well, representation is a little bit better at leadership levels.

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