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Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think)
Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think)
Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think)
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Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think)

Written by Reshma Saujani

Narrated by Reshma Saujani

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INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

The founder of Girls Who Code and bestselling author of Brave, Not Perfect confronts the “big lie” of corporate feminism and presents a bold plan to address the burnout and inequity harming America’s working women today.

We told women that to break glass ceilings and succeed in their careers, all they needed to do is dream big, raise their hands, and lean in. But data tells a different story. Historic numbers of women left their jobs in 2021, resulting in their lowest workforce participation since 1988. Women’s unemployment rose to nearly fifteen percent, and globally women lost over $800 billion in wages. Fifty-one percent of women say that their mental health has declined, while anxiety and depression rates have skyrocketed.

In this urgent and rousing call to arms, Reshma Saujani dismantles the myth of “having it all” and lifts the burden we place on individual women to be primary caregivers, and to work around a system built for and by men. The time has come, she argues, for innovative corporate leadership, government intervention, and sweeping culture shift; it’s time to Pay Up.

Through powerful data and personal narrative, Saujani shows that the cost of inaction—for families, for our nation’s economy, and for women themselves—is too great to ignore. She lays out four key steps for creating lasting change: empower working women, educate corporate leaders, revise our narratives about what it means to be successful, and advocate for policy reform.

Both a direct call to action for business leaders and a pragmatic set of tools for women themselves, Pay Up offers a bold vision for change as America defines the future of work.

Editor's Note

Radical changes…

Reshma Saujani, founder of Girls Who Code and the first Indian American woman to run for Congress in New York City, is sick of the term “girlboss.” Believing that women can only be properly supported via radical changes in government, American culture, and not through more hustle, this fierce and focused manifesto will rev up readers who are also passionate about equity in the workplace.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateMar 15, 2022
ISBN9781797136820
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Reshma Saujani

Reshma Saujani is the former NYC Deputy Public Advocate and the founder of Girls Who Code, a nonprofit that prepares underserved girls for careers in science and technology. She ran for U.S. Congress in New York’s 14th District as a Democrat in 2010.

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    I liked the main idea of the book, that home work that women do should be paid and that men and women equality should not be measured only by the standard of equal pay for equal work. Still the book is mainly focused on law of legislation in the US on the issue and i believe that this problem needs to be treated more in terms of educating the society on what the lives of working mons entail, how hard it it to keep a balnced work vs home ratio. All in all a good read!