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Her money comes to you with some statistics.

In 2018 women accounted for 51% of the US population.

We earned more than 57% of undergraduate degrees,

more than 59% of master's degrees.

We also accounted for 47% of the U.S. Labor Force and over 52% of the college educated workforce, and while we hold almost 52% of all management

and professional level jobs, we lag substantially behind men when it comes to one big thing. Leadership positions.

There is an enormous leadership gap in law, in medicine, in academia, in finance, in politics,

and we are going to spend the next half hour trying to bridge it with this week's guest

Laura Cox Kaplan. She is host of the She Said She Said Podcast.

And she is focused on helping women rise to pretty much any occasion.

The lack of women in senior positions in business and politics is one of the big reasons that Laura started her show and in

addition to it she's also an adjunct professor at American University.

Thanks for being here. Thanks for coming into the studio. I'm so thrilled to be here, Jean. Thanks for coming into the studio.

I'm so thrilled to be here, Jean. Thanks for having me.

Sure. I want to start with She Said She Said,

which is a fabulous name by the way.

You left a big job and a big paycheck to launch it. So why did you do that?

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