Stacey Vanek Smith is a longtime public radio reporter and host. She has served as a correspondent and host for NPR’s Planet Money and Marketplace. She was the founding host of NPR’s daily podcast, The Indicator from Planet Money, and is currently NPR’s global economics correspondent. We’re often told that women have been making strides towards equality for decades. They’ve been increasingly entering male-dominated areas of the workforce and consistently surpassing their male peers in grades, university attendance, and degrees. And they’ve recently stormed the political arena with a vengeance. But despite all of this, the payoff is not there – literally. The gender pay gap has held steady at about 20% since 2000, and the number of female CEOs for Fortune 500 companies has been declining. So why is the glass ceiling still holding strong in the age of #MeToo and #TimesUp? And how can it be shattered once and for all? In Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace (Gallery Books), Vanek Smith applies Renaissance politics to the 21st century, and demonstrates how women can take and maintain power in careers where they have long been cast as second-best.
