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masieghart.bsky.social
Recovering journalist. Author of The Authority Gap, Consultant, TED speaker, Visiting Prof, King’s College London. Director, Guardian Media Group. All opinions mine, not theirs, natch.
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The 2025 #WomensPrize for Non-Fiction longlist. We cannot wait to hear what you think of these 16 incredible books!

All these books will be well worth a read

If you're a young journalist, apply for the Stern-Bryan Fellowship and the chance to spend the summer working for the @washingtonpost.com.

The last chapter will cheer you up, I hope!

My favorite part of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview is when he suggests there is not enough masculine energy at his company, where two out of every three employees is a man.

"Women have been discriminated against for too long in a twisted interpretation of the word of God. Male religious leaders have had an option to interpret holy teachings either to exalt or subjugate women. They have, for their own selfish ends, overwhelmingly chosen the latter." Jimmy Carter RIP

One day I hope to be ubiquitous. That's me all over.

The joke is @masieghart.bsky.social will be accused of being “bolshie” and “combative” for explaining her well-researched, coherent, (and frankly, correct) argument in a confident way.

Can you imagine Fiona Bruce stripping off in front of her crew, with only tassels to hide her nipples? Or Mishal Husain making sexualised comments to her researchers? Or Mel Giedroyc thrusting her groin at a young man wiping cake mixture off her trousers? My column in today’s @theguardian.com

According to the Daily Mail, the world's gone mad. You can't even sexually harass a colleague at the Christmas party these days. Imagine being the Picture Editor who actively chose that photo!

Gregg Wallace: “I can see the complaints coming from a handful of middle-class women of a certain age” Same age as you Gregg t.co/ax8NNIs8LF

The biggest shock of the Haigh resignation is discovering that once upon a time the police actually investigated a stolen phone.

Will the first female US President be a Republican? Are Rachel Reeves' credentials being challenged more than her male predecessors? All this and more in @bloomberg.com's In the City podcast out now. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

This is a reliable finding on immigration opinion: support for 'mass deportation' drops precipitously once survey items are worded so as to include details about exactly who is to be deported

Happy #SmartThinkingSunday! Mary Ann Sieghart, author of The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It recommends a fantastic set of books! smartthinkingbooks.com/smart-thinki... #bookrecommendations #nonfiction #smartthinkingbooks