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Gender bias is everywhere, impacting how we view authority and power around the world. In fact, it\\u2019s so pervasive\\u2014and potentially damaging to organizations\\u2014that our guest Mary Ann Sieghart wrote a book about it titled\\xa0Authority Gap, which explores the critical issue of why women are often taken less seriously than men. This unconscious, double standard behavior affects the C Suite, boardrooms, and conference rooms alike\\u2014even the US Supreme Court and UK Parliament. We talk with Mary Ann \\u2013 journalist, author, non-executive director, and television broadcaster \\u2013 about why organizations and boards need to change gender bias culture and how to make the critical shift from the top down. It\\u2019s a thought-provoking conversation well worth the listen for leaders of any gender. \\xa0

If you want to hear more conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion, you might enjoy these other Redefiner episodes:\\xa0

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• Power, Politics and Purpose: Leadership Lessons with Former PM of Australia Julia Gillard\\xa0
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• From Gillette to Jamba Juice: How to Lead Iconic Brands with Empathy, Purpose & Integrity with James D. White\\xa0
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• Break the Bias: Closing the Gender Wealth Gap with Sallie Krawcheck\\xa0
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BIO:
Mary Ann Sieghart\\xa0 - Journalist, author, non-executive director, broadcaster

Mary Ann Sieghart leads a portfolio life. She makes programmes for BBC Radio 4 and is a Visiting Professor at King\\u2019s College London. She spent 2018-19 as a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, where she researched her book,\\xa0The Authority Gap, on why women are taken less seriously than men. She is Chair of the judges for the Women\\u2019s Prize for Fiction 2022.\\xa0

Mary Ann is a Non-Executive Director of the Guardian Media Group and Chair of the Investment Committee of The Scott Trust (owner of\\xa0The Guardian\\xa0and\\xa0The Observer), Senior Independent Director of Pantheon International, Non-Executive Director of The Merchants Trust and Senior Independent Trustee of the Kennedy Memorial Trust. Until recently, she was Chair of the Social Market Foundation, a non-party-political think tank, Senior Independent Director of Henderson Smaller Companies Investment Trust and sat on the Content Board of Ofcom and the Council of Tate Modern.\\xa0

She spent 19 years as Assistant Editor of The Times, including as Acting Editor of the Monday edition, Op-Ed Editor, Arts Editor, Chief Political Leader-Writer and political and social affairs columnist both on the Op-Ed page and in Times2. She has also written a weekly column in The Independent about politics, economics and social affairs, and presented Newshour, the BBC World Service\\u2019s flagship news and current affairs programme.\\xa0

Mary Ann has extensive TV and radio experience, including presenting\\xa0Start the Week, Analysis, Profile, One to One, Fallout, The Inquiry, Beyond Westminster, Newshour, Powerhouse, The Brains Trust, The Week in Westminster, Taking Issue, The Big Picture, No Illusions and The World This Week. She has regularly appeared as a guest\\xa0on Question Time, Any Questions, Today, Newsnight, The World Tonight, Channel 4 News, PM, The Andrew Marr Show, The World at One, Woman\\u2019s Hour\\xa0and\\xa0The Daily Politics.\\xa0 Before joining The Times, Mary Ann was political correspondent of\\xa0The Economist, City Editor of Today newspaper and a Lex columnist and Eurobond correspondent at the\\xa0Financial Times.\\xa0

She has also sat on numerous boards, including the Heritage Lottery Fund, the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the North Fulham New Deal for Communities, New Europe, the No Campaign, the Radcliffe Trust, the Social Studies Faculty of Oxford University, Women in Journalism and the National Council for One-Parent Families.\\xa0 She won the Laurence Stern Fellowship to work on The Washington Post. She also captained The Times\\u2019s University Challenge: The Professionals team, which reached the semi-final.