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Joanne Lipman on Speaking Up for Women in the Workplace
Dealing with the gender gap in the office doesn’t mean avoiding one-on-ones with women.
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Women, men, and work: It’s complicated. Joanne Lipman, the former editor-in-chief of USA Today and chief content officer of Gannett Co., has spent her career navigating office gender issues. Her how-to guide, That’s What She Said: What Men and Women Need to Know About Working Together, out in paperback, has advice on dealing with the complexities. She spoke with Bloomberg Businessweek about the gender gap.
Your book convincingly argues that both men and women discriminate against working women. Why does that happen?