Investing In Success – Gender bias and the authority gap - PAST EVENT - BM Insights

Gender bias and the authority gap

In Blake Morgan’s Investing in Success webinar, we were privileged to be joined by Mary Ann Sieghart, author of The Authority Gap: Why We Still Take Women Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It (published by Doubleday). Her book provides a startling perspective on the unseen bias at work in our everyday lives, to reveal the scale of the gap that still persists between men and women.

Mary Ann shared with us her learnings and the changes needed at individual, organisational and legislative levels to close the gap. With research showing that men in more gender-equal societies report higher levels of happiness and satisfaction in work and home life, while gender-diverse companies are more profitable, this event could influence your Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity agenda and help you to create a fairer society in which you live.

As Mary Ann is also chairing the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction, which Blake Morgan proudly support, she also stressed the importance of reading books written by women.

Speaker & host

Mary Ann Sieghart

Author | Broadcaster | NED | Visiting Professor at KCL

Mary Ann worked at The Times for nearly 20 years, as Assistant Editor, Comment Editor, Arts Editor and political columnist, and has also worked at the FT, The Economist and The Independent. Mary Ann presents programmes on BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service and has frequently appeared on Question Time, Any Questions, Newsnight, The Andrew Marr Show, The Today Programme and Woman’s Hour. She is currently Chair of Judges for the 2022 Women’s Prize for Fiction which celebrates and honours fiction written by women. Mary Ann is a Visiting Professor at King’s College London and has been a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. She chaired the Social Market Foundation think tank and is a director of The Scott Trust. She is senior trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust and has sat on the boards of Tate Modern, Ofcom’s Content Board, the Heritage Lottery Fund and three large FTSE-quoted investment trusts.

Kath Shimmin

Chair

This event will be hosted by Kath Shimmin, the Blake Morgan Chair. Kath is also head of the firms Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee and was previously our Gender Champion. She advocates for greater workplace diversity and social mobility and is leading the firm in signing up to the Law Society’s Women in Law Pledge to tackle gender inequality in the profession.