Mary Ann Sieghart

Deep Listening? It's deep reading and deep thinking. I highly recommend this book by ⁦‪Emily Kasriel.

This was a fascinating debate with a stellar cast. Well worth a watch.

Important session at How the Light Gets In festival on the Taiwan Tripwire with two of my favourite people, @isabelh.bsky.social and @masieghart.bsky.social

Very excited to be chairing an @IAI_TV online debate on the current state of geopolitics at 6pm on Monday with an extraordinary panel of experts: Francis Fukuyama, Robert Kaplan, Juliet Samuel and Gideon Rachman.
Tickets here: iai.tv/live

The 2025 #WomensPrize for Non-Fiction longlist. We cannot wait to hear what you think of these 16 incredible books!

All these books will be well worth a read

If you're a young journalist, apply for the Stern-Bryan Fellowship and the chance to spend the summer working for the @washingtonpost.com.

The penultimate one will really depress you, though, I'm afraid. And it was written before the rise of Andrew Tate 🙁

The last chapter will cheer you up, I hope!

My favorite part of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview is when he suggests there is not enough masculine energy at his company, where two out of every three employees is a man.

"Women have been discriminated against for too long in a twisted interpretation of the word of God. Male religious leaders have had an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter." Jimmy Carter RIP

One day I hope to be ubiquitous.

That's me all over.

The joke is @masieghart.bsky.social will be accused of being “bolshie” and “combative” for explaining her well-researched, coherent, (and frankly, correct) argument in a confident way.

Agreed!

Thank you! 🙏

But it's a good point...

I didn't write the headline!

Why do some men behave badly? I think I have the answer From an early age boys are treated as though they are smarter and more talented than girls. It can lead to a damaging overconfidence

Can you imagine Fiona Bruce stripping off in front of her crew, with only tassels to hide her nipples? Or Mishal Husain making sexualised comments to her researchers? Or Mel Giedroyc thrusting her groin at a young man wiping cake mixture off her trousers? My column in today’s @theguardian.com

I didn't write the headline! In the piece, I say it's only part of the answer.

Well, thanks! And you?

According to the Daily Mail, the world's gone mad. You can't even sexually harass a colleague at the Christmas party these days. Imagine being the Picture Editor who actively chose that photo!

Gregg Wallace: “I can see the complaints coming from a handful of middle-class women of a certain age”

Same age as you Gregg

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The biggest shock of the Haigh resignation is discovering that once upon a time the police actually investigated a stolen phone.

Are Women Taken Less Seriously in the Workplace? Podcast Episode · In the City · 28/11/2024 · 22m

Will the first female US President be a Republican? Are Rachel Reeves' credentials being challenged more than her male predecessors? All this and more in @bloomberg.com's In the City podcast out now. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

Happy #SmartThinkingSunday! Mary Ann Sieghart, author of The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It recommends a fantastic set of books!

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