Ep. 306: The Ambition Penalty and Myths We've Always Believed
Stefanie O'Connell spent years chasing down heavy research around ambition and found the real reason the gender pay gap won't close. It isn't that women don't ask.



Stefanie O'Connell spent years chasing down heavy research around ambition and found the real reason the gender pay gap won't close. It isn't that women don't ask.

Emily Rask spent a decade in marketing before turning it on itself. Breakfast, diamonds, Listerine's fake disease, and what leaving Mormonism taught her about believing things on command.

Kevin Calhoun is Black, gay, doctorate, DEI insider at major corporations; and has watched diversity programs get built and then dismantled. Now he's shining a light on what's replaced Jim Crow and what to do about it.

Women are paying out of pocket to stay relevant at work. This episode challenges whether beauty costs should be employer paid - and why that idea makes people squirm.

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