10 Best gender books like The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It by Mary Ann Sieghart

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The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

By: Mary Ann Sieghart

4.36

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An incisive, intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women’s author…

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1. Do It Like a Woman... and Change the World

By: None , Caroline Criado Pérez

4.29

Format: None pages, Paperback

Every day, all over the world, women are making a positive difference to their lives and the lives … read more

Similar categories in None's Do It Like a Woman... and Change the World book and Mary Ann Sieghart's The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • audiobook
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2. The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It

By: Owen Jones

3.32

Format: 344 pages, Hardcover

In The EstablishmentOwen Jones, author of the international bestseller Chavs, offers a biting criti… read more

Similar categories in Owen Jones's The Establishment: And How They Get Away with It book and Mary Ann Sieghart's The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

  • audiobook
  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
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3. Everyday Sexism

By: Laura Bates

4.26

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

In 2012 after being sexually harassed on London public transport Laura Bates, a young journalist, s… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Women who lead, read"

-Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism

"Disbelief is the first great silencer."

-Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism

"This is not a men vs women issue. It’s about people vs prejudice."

-Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism

"Women are silenced by both the invisibility and the acceptability of the problem."

-Laura Bates, Everyday Sexism

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4. Fix the System, Not the Women

By: Laura Bates

4.52

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table. … read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • womens
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"So how do we fix it? The short answer is that we don't. We have wasted decades telling women and girls how to fix things. How to fix themselves. How to stay safe. It hasn't worked. Because women were…"

-Laura Bates, Fix the System, Not the Women

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5. Men Who Hate Women

By: Laura Bates

4.34

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about. Men W… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Incels use the metaphor of the red pill to describe the moment a man's blinkers fall away and he suddenly realizes that he has been lied to his whole life. The world that he has been forced to believ…"

-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women

"When incels do occasionally crop up in news reports or conversations, they're so easily dismissed as a tiny fringe group of online weirdos. What you hear about them sounds so strange, so extreme, so …"

-Laura Bates, Men Who Hate Women

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6. Misogynation

By: Laura Bates

4.06

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Laura Bates, pioneering feminist, activist and bestselling author, has given voice to hundreds of t… read more

Similar categories in Laura Bates's Misogynation book and Mary Ann Sieghart's The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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7. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

By: Caroline Criado Pérez

4.35

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • womens
  • sociology
  • business
  • audiobook
"When planners fail to account for gender, public spaces become male spaces by default."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"It's not always easy to convince someone a need exists, if they don't have that need themselves."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"You don’t have to realise you’re being discriminated against to in fact be discriminated against."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

"There is no such thing as a woman who doesn’t work. There is only a woman who isn’t paid for her work."

-Caroline Criado Pérez, Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

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8. Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

By: Helen Lewis

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition

Well-behaved women don’t make history: difficult women do. Feminism’s success is down to compli… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • womens
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Women's history should not be a shallow hunt for heroines."

-Helen Lewis, Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

"If feminism doesn't frighten people with power, it is toothless."

-Helen Lewis, Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

"Women need time and space to play - particularly when we work so hard"

-Helen Lewis, Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

"Feminism has to fight 'the tyranny of niceness'. It is, and has always been, one of the most potent forces holding women back."

-Helen Lewis, Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

Cover of The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It by Mary Ann Sieghart

9. The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

By: Mary Ann Sieghart

4.36

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An incisive, intersectional look at the mother of all gender biases: a resistance to women’s author… read more

Similar categories in Mary Ann Sieghart's The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It book and Mary Ann Sieghart's The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

  • audiobook
  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • womens
  • sociology
  • business
  • leadership
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10. Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food

By: Chris van Tulleken

4.43

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A manifesto to change how you eat and how you think about the human body. It’s not you, it’s the… read more

Similar categories in Chris van Tulleken's Ultra-Processed People: The Science Behind Food That Isn't Food book and Mary Ann Sieghart's The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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11. Strong Female Character

By: Fern Brady

4.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

A summary of my 1. I'm diagnosed with autism 20 years after telling a doctor I had it. 2. My… read more

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  • feminism
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"I was continually over-identifying with fiction to try and find a template for myself and my story (143)"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"For all her flaws, my mum never raised me with dysfunctional attitudes to food or made me think I was greedy or not thin enough. She was always clear she disliked me for me."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It's 2022 as I write this and I'm still waiting to find someone I respect to speak openly and in detail about meltdowns. I'm really annoyed that I have to be the one to do this."

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

"It made perfect sense to me that my skin was bursting open in disgusting weeping pustules. The emotions felt volcanic and I'd never been good at communicating that to people in words so now my body w…"

-Fern Brady, Strong Female Character

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12. Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women

By: Victoria Smith

3.67

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

What is about about women in their forties and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone? In… read more

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  • feminism
  • politics
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • womens
  • sociology
  • audiobook
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13. Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

By: Elinor Cleghorn

4.11

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

A trailblazing, conversation-starting history of women's health--from the earliest medical ideas ab… read more

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  • feminism
  • womens
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"For centuries, medicine has claimed that women are defined by their bodies and biology. But we have never been respected as reliable narrators of what happens to our bodies. We are denied agency beca…"

-Elinor Cleghorn, Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World

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14. What About Men?

By: Caitlin Moran

3.70

Format: 319 pages, Kindle Edition

As any feminist who talks about the problems of girls and women will know, the first question you w… read more

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  • feminism
  • gender
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
  • audiobook
"Finally I read 12 Rules for Life and there is some good stuff in it. Peterson’s step by step advice on how to properly argue with loved ones and come to an agreement that is satisfying to both is und…"

-Caitlin Moran, What About Men?

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15. Keir Starmer: The Biography

By: Tom Baldwin

4.06

Format: 428 pages, Kindle Edition

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This will be the most important political book of the year’ MATTHEW… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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16. Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

By: Caroline Lucas

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition

Who are the English? Today, the dominant story told about our national history solely serves the i… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
"Many resented how some expressions of Englishness were allowed, while others were not. It was acceptable to love the English countryside, English humour, English music and English Literature, and to …"

-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

"With the 1980s came a new harshness in British politics, which included prioritising profit over public service. The Conservatives - the very party who might have been expected to support the traditi…"

-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

"The economist J.K. Galbraith wrote in The Affluent Society (1958) about 'private affluence and public squalor', demonstrating the pernicious effects on the economy and society of excessive wealth ine…"

-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

"Ultimately, the most powerful way to rebalance the interests of private owners and the common good is by shifting the focus towards taxes on wealth - that is, asking those who have accummulated subst…"

-Caroline Lucas, Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

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17. Why We Eat (Too Much): The New Science of Appetite

By: Andrew Jenkinson

4.22

Format: 331 pages, Hardcover

For over two decades, weight loss surgeon Dr Andrew Jenkinson has treated thousands of people who h… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Jenkinson's Why We Eat (Too Much): The New Science of Appetite book and Mary Ann Sieghart's The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
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18. Divided

By: Annabel Sowemimo

4.56

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023 'Important and ambitious' Observer, B… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Great Britain?: The must-read Sunday Times bestseller on How We Get Our Future Back by Torsten Bell

19. Great Britain?: The must-read Sunday Times bestseller on How We Get Our Future Back

By: Torsten Bell

4.37

Format: 290 pages, Kindle Edition

Thrilling and essential campaign reading from one of our most influential and profound economists'T… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • audiobook
Cover of All In: How We Build a Country That Works by Lisa Nandy

20. All In: How We Build a Country That Works

By: Lisa Nandy

3.61

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

‘A persuasive manifesto for a better Britain.’ Observer Book of the DayBritain is in crisis. This t… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
Cover of Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It by Sam Freedman

21. Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It

By: Sam Freedman

4.50

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

NOTHING WORKS IN BRITAIN.It’s harder than ever to get a GP appointment. Burglaries go unpunished. W… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook
"Having sharper, more thoughtful and emotionally intelligent people with integrity in high office will always make things better."

-Sam Freedman, Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It

10 best-selling womens books like The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It by Mary Ann Sieghart

Transform Your Habits

Do It Like a Woman... and Change the World

None , Caroline Criado Pérez

4.29

Transform Your Habits

Everyday Sexism

Laura Bates

4.26

Transform Your Habits

Fix the System, Not the Women

Laura Bates

4.52

Transform Your Habits

Men Who Hate Women

Laura Bates

4.34

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10 Best womens books like Hags: The Demonisation of Middle-Aged Women by Victoria Smith

Transform Your Habits

Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights

Helen Lewis

4.23

Transform Your Habits

The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It

Mary Ann Sieghart

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Feminism Against Progress

Mary Harrington

4.09

Transform Your Habits

Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism

Kathleen Stock

4.22

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