The Authority Gap w/ Mary Ann Sieghart

Talk Nerdy with Cara Santa Maria

Talk Nerdy, Inc.

Natural Sciences, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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In this episode of Talk Nerdy, Cara is joined by journalist and broadcaster Mary Ann Sieghart to talk about her new book, “The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It.” They discuss gender bias in work, school, media, politics, and larger society, with an emphasis on power, class, and privilege.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to talk nerdy. Today is Monday, March 14th, 2022 and I'm the host of the show, Kara Santa Maria.
0:23.0	And before we dive into this week's episode,
0:25.0	as we always do, I want to thank those of you who make Talk Nurdy possible.
0:30.0	Remember TalkNurdy is and will always be 100% free to download and that's because I rely on the support of folks just like you to help offset basically that expense for anyone and everyone.
0:43.2	If you're interested in pledging your support,
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0:48.3	slash TalkNurdy, or you can learn more
0:51.8	about other ways to support the show at talk nerdy.com or
0:55.8	kara Santa Maria.com. This week's top patrons include Daniel Lang, David J.E. Smith,
1:02.4	Mary Niva, Brian Holden, Christopher Pitts, Duda's Infinitas,
1:08.0	Gabriel F. Haramillo Gonzalez, June Sappara, Leonard Prince, and Ulrika Hagman.
1:15.0	Thank you all so, so much.
1:18.0	All right, let's dive on in.
1:21.0	So, this week, I had the opportunity to sit down with Mary Ann Seacart. Now
1:28.9	Marian is a journalist, an author, a broadcaster.
1:33.0	She spent 20 years as assistant editor and columnist at the Times.
1:37.0	She has won a lot of awards.
1:38.5	She has done a lot of really great broadcast work.
1:42.2	She's currently working as a visiting professor at King's College London
1:46.5	and she is chair of the judges for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022. She's here to talk about her new book, The Authority Gap,
1:56.7	why women are still taken less seriously than men
2:00.6	and what we can do about it.
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