Veteran media executive Joanne Lipman finds workable solutions that individual managers, organizations, and government can employ to make work more equitable. Filled with anecdotes and stories from Lipman's own journey, this book shows why empowering women as true equals is an essential goal for us all, and offers a road map for getting there.

A recent Harvard study found that corporate "diversity training" has actually made the gender gap worse -- in part because it makes men feel demonized. Women, meanwhile, have been told that closing the gender gap is up to them: they need to speak up, to be more confident, to demand to be paid what they're worth. They discuss these issues amongst themselves all the time. What they don't do is talk to men about it. It's time to end that disconnect. More people in leadership roles are genuinely trying to transform the way we work together, because there's abundant evidence that companies with more women in senior leadership perform better by virtually every measure. Yet despite good intentions, men often lack the tools they need, leading to fumbles, missteps, frustration and misunderstanding that continue to inflict real and lasting damage on women's careers. Filled with anecdotes, data from recent studies, and stories from her own journey to the top of a male-dominated industry, Joanne L