No More Nice Girls
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No More Nice Girls

Gender, Power, and Why It’s Time to Stop Playing by the Rules

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

No More Nice Girls

Gender, Power, and Why It’s Time to Stop Playing by the Rules

About this book

A groundbreaking, insightful book about women and power from award-winning journalist Lauren McKeon, which shows how women are disrupting the standard (very male) vision of power, ditching convention, and building a more equitable world for everyone.

In the age of girl bosses, Beyoncé, and Black Widow, we like to tell our little girls they can be anything they want when they grow up, except they'll have to work twice as hard, be told to "play nice," and face countless double standards that curb their personal, political, and economic power. Women today remain a surprisingly, depressingly long way from gender and racial equality. It's worth asking: Why do we keep playing a game we were never meant to win?

Award-winning journalist and author of F-Bomb: Dispatches from the War on Feminism, Lauren McKeon examines the many ways in which our institutions are designed to keep women and other marginalized genders at a disadvantage. In doing so, she reveals why we need more than parity, visible diversity, and lone female CEOs to change this power game. She talks to people doing power differently in a variety of sectors and uncovers new models of power. And as the toxic, divisive, and hyper-masculine style of leadership gains ground, she underscores why it's time to stop playing by the rules of a rigged game.

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Index

abortion, 146, 284–285
academic freedom, 75–77
activist shareholders, 124
Adams, Kathleen Kontak, 63
adaptation, 24–25, 39
Addo, Aisha, 234–235, 236, 238–239
adolescence. See girls/young women, 34–35
affirmative action, 68
agency, 30–32
aggression, 30–31, 32
Aitken, Mary, 154–155
Akufo-Addo, Nana Addo Dankwa, 293, 294–297
Al-Guneid, Nagwan, 250
allies, 287–288, 305–306
AlphaPR, 182–183, 184
alternatives
collaboration, 32, 287, 308
dismissing, 33–34
equity by design, 217–218
film directing approaches, 206
greeting cards, 211–212
healthy offices, 182–184
The Mother-Daughter Project, 274–276
new spaces/communities, 203–204
new visions of power, 40, 52–55, 63–67
philosophy of inclusion, 185–186
social enterprises, 169–174
women without children, 268
Amazon, 218
ambition gap, 250–252, 256–257
“An Ambivalent Alliance” (Fiske and Glick), 90
The Ambival...

Table of contents

  1. Praise for No More Nice Girls
  2. The Walrus Books
  3. Also by Lauren McKeon
  4. Introduction
  5. Power Hungry
  6. This Time It’s Different
  7. Would It Kill You to Smile?
  8. This Is What Equality Looks Like
  9. No Boys Allowed
  10. More Women, More Money
  11. I See You Now
  12. Slay All the Trolls
  13. Unconventional Women
  14. Rebel Girl
  15. Because It’s 2020
  16. Acknowledgements
  17. Index
  18. About the Author
  19. About the Publisher