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Welcome, michelle king. Author of the fix. Guest hi. Thank you for having me. Host its a pleasure to have you here. This is such an important book because its not just about the problems that women face in the workplace. Its so focused on solutions, and i love your key insight which is that we tend to give advice to women, a lot of books and con friends for women, telling them what they need to do and how they need to change. We need to lean in, we need negotiate more, and if were too nice well never get the corner office. What you point out is the truth is that women actually dont need fixing. Were not the ones that are broken. What is broken is the workplace, and as we know, workplaces were designed by men, for men, when women try to act like men, it has not work out very well for us. And i love how you put it. You say we need to call a timeout on the women fixing epidemic. And as you point out, of course, michelle, gender equality is not just about women. Your book, the fix, i is no
That we cant just take a country club view, winners and losers, this would be donald trump, i dont care about them. Ive got my cadillac, all is well in the world. On a lot of the policy proposals nancy makes on the left, i agree. I may not quite agree with the scale she wants to do them on but we agree that we should help poor people and pregnant women and so forth, that there should be not a fist in peoples face but an open hand of help and that is perfectly consistent with what we unfortunately called capitalism. The ordinary capitalists transaction, we buy a cup of coffee and for one thing for sure act of buying a cup of coffee is mutually advantageous in both people are happy about it but furthermore youll notice in your own life that if you make a habit of going to that coffee shop you eventually become friends. Commerce creates friendship the way church creates friendship. Or College High School class. They are not forcing each other to do things. They are allowed to say no and o
It just about the problems. Its focus on solutions, and i love your key insight for just that we tend to give advice to women and the resulting books and conferences telling them what they need to change. We need to negotiate more and we will never get the corner office. But what you point out is we are not the ones that are broken. Whats broken is the workplace and as we know they were designed by a man for men when women try to act like men it hasnt worked out well for us and i love how you put it. We need to call a timeout on the women fixing epidemic and as you point out, gender and quality isnt just about women. It isnt just about women but its all of us and about making the workplace better for everyone. So thank you, welcome. Your book provides a guide. Why dont we dived right in here. If you could share with us what is your own background that brought you to this place . Guest its funny ive been researching this for many years looking at why women are not moving at the same rat
That the women dont need fixing we are not broken and the workplaces are designed by men for when when women try to act like minute doesnt work out very well for us. That we need to call a timeout on how women on the fixate epidemic. Gender equality is not just about women it is about for all of us said making the workplace work better for everyone. So welcome and your book provides a guide so im very interested if you can share with us your own background that brought you to this place . I have been researching for many years looking at why women are not advancing so the lead in book by Cheryl Sanders was very popular and that was the fix the women solution and for them to be more to establish that quite frankly did not value them. So when i was researching it i was looking at what we needed to do differently. And very quickly with all the literature we found that women are exceptional in term of networking capabilities and problem solving. A lot of that was new to me. To take network