Slate Money - Slate Money Presents: Women in Charge
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 October 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Slate Money is proud to introduce you to Women in Charge. In this new series, Slate Editor-in-Chief Julia Turner asks other female leaders about the nitty-gritty details of their work lives—what do they do every day, how do they do it, and how are things changing for women in their fields? In this episode you'll hear from Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, someone who worked her way from investment banking at Merrill Lynch, to heading up sectors at Amazon and Google, and finally taking on the role of president of StubHub.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Emily Peck from Huffington Post. I'm here with Felix Salmon of Axios and Anna Schimansky and Julia Turner, who is editor-in-chief of Slate. And Julia has some |
| 0:24.5 | exciting news for us. She's going to tell us about her new podcast, which is called Women in Charge. |
| 0:29.4 | Yes, I'm very excited to bring women in charge before the Slate Money panel. And you've chosen |
| 0:35.3 | an especially special episode to do that with? Yes, dropped into this |
| 0:40.8 | feed for your listeners' delectation is going to be an episode of this show. I'm doing a six |
| 0:45.7 | episode run as a woman in charge, interviewing other women in charge about the state and tactics |
| 0:52.9 | and strategies of being in charge. And the episode that your listeners |
| 0:56.9 | will hear is an interview with Sukhenderson Cassidy, who is the president of Stubhub, started |
| 1:01.8 | on Wall Street, came up through a variety of big and small companies in Silicon Valley, and has also |
| 1:08.0 | recently founded a company called the board list whose goal is to make it impossible for people to say, I just can't find a woman to add to my board by sort of crowdsourcing a list of very qualified women for boards. |
| 1:21.0 | Before we get to that, which I think is so fascinating because that is the number one excuse you hear when people talk about why there aren't women on boards. |
| 1:27.7 | Can we talk about this whole idea of focusing on, for lack of a better word, or focusing on lady bosses, |
| 1:36.8 | which I always find as someone covering women in business to be a little offensive. |
| 1:41.8 | Like women in charge implies that to my mind, like, they're not typically in |
| 1:45.9 | charge or they don't want to be in charge or they're not fit to be in charge. So do you think by doing |
| 1:50.8 | this kind of podcast, you're sort of like invigorating that stereotype or breaking it down? |
| 1:54.7 | Well, I will say that the genesis of this podcast was my frustration at sometimes being asked, what's it like to be a woman in charge? |
| 2:05.5 | What's it like to be a lady leader? How does it feel to be the first female editor of Slate? And it's like, I don't know, man. I'm just a journalist. I'm just trying to run a newsroom. It feels like me. I don't know any other way to be in charge. And in general, I have a |
| 2:19.7 | real allergy to, you know, sort of gendered assumptions about anything about, oh, women's |
| 2:25.7 | newsrooms are so much more nurturing. Women are such caring leaders. Wouldn't the world be better |
| 2:31.1 | if women were in charge of everything? It's like, no, women are, have talent and |
| 2:36.3 | flaws. They have skills and weaknesses like they are individuals. And, you know, the reason to want |
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