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May 2022
38m 21s

Lise Vesterlund on Balancing the Equalit...

Erik Fisher
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This week I had the privilege of speaking with Lise Vesterlund about a new book she helped co-author, The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women's Dead-End Work. In this conversation, Lise helps listeners better understand the enormous disparities when it comes to "non-promotable" work tasks that are disproportionally assigned to women in the workplace. We talk a ... Show More
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