worst offenders. really? they know the weaknesses of other women, they know what women will apologize for raises and they key in on that. there s one ceo, you ve got to tell the story. no, i m not doing it. don t give the ceo s name. stop it. it comes in and out may. what s the date? there s one ceo, a woman stop it! she knows she can hire women who have children. my publisher just threw up. let me finish this, please. okay. a female ceo says she shows women with children are so desperate to get back into the workplace, that a lot of times she ll hire them four days a week, not give them benefits and they will work twice as hard as men. that s a company whose stock you should sell, male or female, if you have a ceo like that, they re not going very far. women are treated horribly in the work force. i don t want a ceo who will behave like that, treat anybody like that. it s middle manage her are
which is not surprising. not so great. at all levels of education, women earned only three-fourths of what their male counterparts made in 2009. i would say that s a best-case scenario from firsthand experience. administration officials say the data will be used you have written a book specifically on this. yes. it s coming out in may. literally on this topic. it s our story. it s what s been going on here. uh-huh. on this show. and also all these other women that we interview that mika s been talking to through the years, whether it s sheila bear, the ceo of facebook or yahoo! they all have the same stories. it s that they undervalue their worth, while guys go into a room and say, i m worth this. women too often go into a room and apologize. we take a look at what we
could do better. these numbers are bad. it s good timing. valer valerie s in the book. valerie jared is in the book. all these women have the same stories, they never really knew their value and they had to learn over time. oh, but it gets worse. some of them use it against others. we ll get to it in the book. let s not give it all away. and some of it is sexism, too. no doubt, sexism plays a huge role in it. i look at what we can do better and also what we do to undermine ourselves and others. yeah but i think we have to say to the ceo, come on, guys, if you were paying black people less you d be called out on it. but you don t get called out for paying women less. we have an interesting story here. one thing you said you have to tell the ceos, come on, guys, the thing that mika uncovered exactly. the thing that mika uncovered is women ceos are often the