Women at Work - Introducing Women at Work

Episode Date: January 16, 2018

Conversations about the workplace, and women's place in it.

Over 40,000 businesses have future-proofed their business with NetSuite by Oracle, the number one cloud ERP, bringing accounting, financial management, inventory, and HR into one platform. Download the CFO's Guide to AI and Machine Learning for free at netsuite.com slash women at work. Did you know that if you're the only woman in a pool of job finalists, you have essentially no chance of being hired? Did you know that men are more likely than women to pretend to work long hours? And have you heard about the study that used tracking badges to see how men and women really behave at work? At Harvard Business Review, we publish a lot of research and insight into gender issues

and what work is like for women. Now we're launching this new limited run podcast, Women at Work. Six episodes, each covering one of the big issues we as women have to deal with on the job. Like figuring out how to talk so that our ideas get heard. The challenges of being a female leader and why women aren't advancing. And sexual harassment. Here's what Netflix's former chief talent officer, Patti McCord, had to say about that. People have been politely mentioning this stuff for, I mean, I've been at this for 30 years. You know, if it's going to

take a scream now, women are going to scream. We've asked sociolinguist Deborah Tannen about the power of talk. I observed that women frequently said we when talking about something they personally had done or accomplished. We'll be interviewing many more female business leaders and researchers about women and work. We'll also give you tools and insights to make a difference in your career and at your workplace. I'm Amy Bernstein, editor of Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green Carmichael, executive editor.

I'm Nicole Torres, associate editor. Join our conversation.