Pay Up: The Future of Women and Work (and Why It's Different Than You Think) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781982191573)

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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.

Author: Reshma Saujani
ISBN-10: 1982191570
ISBN-13: 9781982191573
Publisher: Atria/One Signal Publishers
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2022
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2021 pg. 21
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2022
Publishers Weekly 02/21/2022