INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
"Reshma Saujani...offers a daring new approach: it's not our job to do
more, it's time for our workplaces to pay up." --Tarana Burke, founder
of the "me too" movement
The founder of Girls Who Code and bestselling author of Brave, Not
Perfect confronts the "big lie" of corporate feminism and presents a
bold plan to address the burnout and inequity harming America's working
women today.
We told women that to break glass ceilings and succeed in their careers,
all they needed to do is dream big, raise their hands, and lean in. But
data tells a different story. Historic numbers of women left their jobs
in 2021, resulting in their lowest workforce participation since 1988.
Women's unemployment rose to nearly fifteen percent, and globally women
lost over $800 billion in wages. Fifty-one percent of women say that
their mental health has declined, while anxiety and depression rates
have skyrocketed.
In this urgent and rousing call to arms, Reshma Saujani dismantles the
myth of "having it all" and lifts the burden we place on individual
women to be primary caregivers, and to work around a system built for
and by men. The time has come, she argues, for innovative corporate
leadership, government intervention, and sweeping culture shift; it's
time to Pay Up.
Through powerful data and personal narrative, Saujani shows that the
cost of inaction--for families, for our nation's economy, and for women
themselves--is too great to ignore. She lays out four key steps for
creating lasting change: empower working women, educate corporate
leaders, revise our narratives about what it means to be successful, and
advocate for policy reform.
Both a direct call to action for business leaders and a pragmatic set of
tools for women themselves, Pay Up offers a bold vision for change as
America defines the future of work.
