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How to Close the Authority Gap | Mary Ann Sieghart | TED

Women are routinely underestimated, overlooked, interrupted, talked over or mistaken for someone more junior at the workplace. Author Mary Ann Sieghart calls this the “authority gap” — all the ways women are (still) taken less seriously than men, despite proven competence and expertise. She explains how we can close this pernicious gap and why everyone…

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Women are routinely underestimated, overlooked, interrupted, talked over or mistaken for someone more junior at the workplace. Author Mary Ann Sieghart calls this the “authority gap” — all the ways women are (still) taken less seriously than men, despite proven competence and expertise. She explains how we can close this pernicious gap and why everyone wins when we do so.

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65 Comments

  1. @jairivasmen

    March 12, 2024 at 9:43 am

    I dont know what she is talking about

    • @mistressfreezepeach

      March 12, 2024 at 12:46 pm

      Society still isn’t gynocentric enough, because men exist, basically.

    • @gollossalkitty

      March 12, 2024 at 2:55 pm

      Maybe it’s like communism? In the literal sense, not its connotations. PotFriend

    • @ArtArtisian

      March 12, 2024 at 9:12 pm

      She seems to give a lot of examples. Did you understand those?

    • @skittlez8094

      March 13, 2024 at 12:06 am

      Bud you have a long way to go

  2. @RickLambert963

    March 12, 2024 at 10:16 am

    Feminist fruit loop needs to sit down with Jordan Peterson. Ted Talks is really bad nowadays.

    • @thomasel9171

      March 12, 2024 at 10:23 am

      👏

    • @mistressfreezepeach

      March 12, 2024 at 12:41 pm

      Feminist Fruit Loops™ – Now with even more whining!

  3. @louisrajaona5939

    March 12, 2024 at 10:20 am

    Sending strengths to all women around the world, especially to black, brown and dark skinned women 💪🏾💪🏾

    • @mbergamin16

      March 12, 2024 at 12:44 pm

      Sad

  4. @hamsterclamper

    March 12, 2024 at 10:26 am

    She could have made an effort with her hair

    • @cfayek

      March 12, 2024 at 12:12 pm

      Really? That’s what you care to tall about? You’re a part of the problem.

    • @mistressfreezepeach

      March 12, 2024 at 2:42 pm

      @@cfayek No she is.

  5. @RetroTechnoLust

    March 12, 2024 at 10:26 am

    TED is dead. What a shame.

    • @piku5637

      March 12, 2024 at 12:14 pm

      No it’s still here and this talk is relevant.

    • @mistressfreezepeach

      March 12, 2024 at 12:45 pm

      @@piku5637 It’s completely irrelevant and all made up. Our society is hyper-gynocentric, women in the Western world are the most pampered, supported and cared for beings in the history of the known universe

    • @mbergamin16

      March 12, 2024 at 12:45 pm

      💯

  6. @RalphNeukirchen

    March 12, 2024 at 10:27 am

    wow! fantastic TEDTalk!
    Thanks a lot Prof. Sieghart. I would like to quote a review of her book because as Husband and father I feel exactly the same:
    “I knew some of what Sieghart wrote about but not all – that was sad on my part ! The really good part was at the end that told me clearly I can actually do something right away towards misogyny, sexism and unconscious bias.”

  7. @RetroTechnoLust

    March 12, 2024 at 10:41 am

    “We still assume a man knows what he talks about, until he proves otherwise…” *crowd laughing* unreal this is the level of cringe we have to continue dealing with just to sell propaganda books. What an accomplishment. Thankfully there are actually a ton of female leaders who are amazing and don’t need or lead by these unfortunate examples.

  8. @meanderinoranges

    March 12, 2024 at 10:43 am

    You want people to take you seriously? Then don’t be a dumb dumb. You have to EARN credibility.

  9. @conspiracytherapist2473

    March 12, 2024 at 10:48 am

    Ummmmm, the average mental age of HUMANITY is 12-14 years old. I would think you might want to fix that instead stepping into that patriarchal adolescent cycle VICTOR HUGO told us about.

  10. @premapoojitanananda7947

    March 12, 2024 at 10:56 am

    🌟 I can see at least one benefit for closing the authority gap is everyone having greater integrity 🌸

  11. @OneaeBlack

    March 12, 2024 at 11:14 am

    If ya gotta watch twice listen and learn something don’t be dumb please.

    • @mbergamin16

      March 12, 2024 at 12:43 pm

      No thanks

    • @OneaeBlack

      March 12, 2024 at 1:04 pm

      @@mbergamin16 Grow UP?

    • @mbergamin16

      March 12, 2024 at 1:30 pm

      @@OneaeBlack That’s your response to “No Thanks” 🤦‍♂️😂 take your own advice

    • @OneaeBlack

      March 12, 2024 at 2:55 pm

      @@mbergamin16 Wise Up?

    • @mbergamin16

      March 12, 2024 at 5:06 pm

      @@OneaeBlack You could take that advice also, yes.

      Don’t assume anyone needs to watch this video more than once to attain some sort of hidden wisdom. It isn’t there, this conversation was not that deep, or very useful; and having said opinion doesn’t make me or anyone else “dumb” 🤦‍♂️

  12. @christiansoldier1547

    March 12, 2024 at 11:24 am

    God the Father, made woman from a part of a man. Wo-man means what ? But a woman is very valuable to humanity . To birth and raise the children and to be a help to the man as it’s his responsibility to provide for the family. That’s the way God intended it to be.

    • @CushRayman

      March 12, 2024 at 11:51 am

      Absolutely.

    • @mistressfreezepeach

      March 12, 2024 at 12:39 pm

      All societies have been gynocentric for these reasons, basically because we are social mammals. None of those basic truths are considered in feminism

    • @christiansoldier1547

      March 12, 2024 at 4:47 pm

      @@Molly_1123 The last supper with instructions for the bread and the wine before his ascension was with who ?
      Jesus’s most loved disciple was Mary Magdalene, the others admitted it. And many women throughout the bible were mentioned and God used to fulfill his will. Nobody doubts the usefulness of women. My wife is an awesome women willing to jump right in there when we have to wrestle our bulls down for castration or elastration. Tough woman. Why, I wouldn’t trade her for
      for a creek full of trout on a Sunday afternoon during full hatching of the nymph bugs.

    • @chideraaugusta1799

      March 13, 2024 at 1:44 pm

      Thank you 💕

  13. @ronoldcross8189

    March 12, 2024 at 11:41 am

    I had men and women as seniors at work, civilian and military, throughout my working life. On both sides of the “Great Divide”, I had excellent, competent, and questionable bosses or seniors.

  14. @G0LIRA

    March 12, 2024 at 11:57 am

    0:06 Why would you read your résumé for such a simple question in the first place?
    Maybe that’s why he was mean, nobody likes a know-it-all, be it a woman or a man…

    • @Molly_1123

      March 12, 2024 at 6:34 pm

      LOL, I’ve been defending this video, but you make a good point!

  15. @akbiplobss

    March 12, 2024 at 12:09 pm

    ❤❤❤

  16. @jessevos5109

    March 12, 2024 at 12:16 pm

    That’s a dude.

    • @masieghart

      March 12, 2024 at 1:24 pm

      What an odd thing to say! What on earth makes you think that? I can assure you that I’m a woman.

  17. @Laralinda

    March 12, 2024 at 12:23 pm

    My boss says that he doesn’t have such biases. Everything okay then, I guess? We need to tackle these problems on a structural level, not a personal one.

    • @Molly_1123

      March 12, 2024 at 6:33 pm

      Well that is certainly possible, and I certainly hope that is true. It’s also possible that this is a blind-spot or that he is uncomfortable acknowledging, even to himself, his bias. Social injustice needs to be addressed at the individual and systemic levels, imo.

  18. @mistressfreezepeach

    March 12, 2024 at 12:36 pm

    Close the empathy gap and the accountability gap are the obvious solutions.

    • @mistressfreezepeach

      March 12, 2024 at 12:53 pm

      for the feminists here: that means giving men any empathy and women finally accountability

    • @mistressfreezepeach

      March 12, 2024 at 12:53 pm

      for the feminists here: that means
      men are human, women are adults.

    • @mistressfreezepeach

      March 12, 2024 at 7:38 pm

      @@Molly_1123 yet you believe fem. myths and fabricated stats with them not even pretending to be objective

  19. @mistressfreezepeach

    March 12, 2024 at 12:49 pm

    The only way everybody can be free is when feminists tell everybody what to say, how to act and what to think. It’s very simple, really.

  20. @DS-pe8tt

    March 12, 2024 at 12:59 pm

    Thank you for addressing this. I still deal with sexism and the gender gap. Some things have changed, but others have not at all.

  21. @mistressfreezepeach

    March 12, 2024 at 1:17 pm

    Even letting one feminist speak makes TED an anti-demoratic organization.

  22. @th3gughy

    March 12, 2024 at 2:06 pm

    One of the best lesson in life I’ve ever heard. This is so important, fundamental even, for everyone’s everyday life that it’s hard to understand how this isn’t yet normal. Thank you!

    • @mistressfreezepeach

      March 12, 2024 at 2:41 pm

      Sad manipulated man.

    • @th3gughy

      March 12, 2024 at 2:54 pm

      @@mistressfreezepeach I would care if you weren’t a chatbot..

    • @mistressfreezepeach

      March 12, 2024 at 3:02 pm

      @@th3gughy you’re saying that just to upset me and tell me what I say doesn’t matter, basically. That is the definition of a troll. Muting you now.

  23. @alihata9951

    March 12, 2024 at 2:08 pm

    Fico imaginando Camille Paglia assistindo essa palestra…🤔🤔🤔

  24. @Molly_1123

    March 12, 2024 at 3:11 pm

    Show me the peer-reviewed research that proves she’s wrong (ie this disparity is not still an issue).

    • @LegendLength

      March 14, 2024 at 6:44 am

      You don’t get promoted in that field by producing right-leaning results politically

  25. @karenreddy

    March 12, 2024 at 10:46 pm

    It makes sense though. The brain is constantly looking for ways to optimize and extrapolate in a world with little knowledge. Given that FAR more men have built this world than women it’s not super surprising a bias has formed. It is often true that women achieve less than men, though a few women do achive a lot, and often a lot more than the average men.

    Those few who do achieve considerably more than the average will sense this powerful bias formed over millennia working against them.

    Poorly dressed men are also discriminated against, as are men of color. The entire world is constantly trying to make sense of everything and predict what’s ahead with little information available.

  26. @vangnguyen8420

    March 13, 2024 at 1:05 am

    From Vietnam with love

  27. @adilakbar3053

    March 13, 2024 at 3:16 am

    Thank you for this wonderful talk

  28. @chideraaugusta1799

    March 13, 2024 at 1:41 pm

    *LAWLESSNESS*

  29. @lewiswege160

    March 14, 2024 at 5:33 am

    Women…

  30. @DEEPWEB-.-

    March 14, 2024 at 9:00 am

    zero contribution and thousands of requests for equality, that’s communism

  31. @0WhiteKnight0

    March 14, 2024 at 3:42 pm

    A trans person is perceived differently based on their gender however that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s because of a male/female discrepancy. If I (a man) transitioned to being a woman then I become a trans woman not a woman, this is self evident. You can not comprehensively say that a woman is the same as a trans woman, thats insanity.

    Females/women are less likely to recieve a raise or voice their opinion because of evolution psychology and also sociogical structures. It would be beneficial to minimise these discrepancies though.

    Its not a bad thing that men ask for what they want more, its a good thing. We should encourage women to do the same also and make it viably obtainable.

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