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Episode 124: Sara Laschever, "Women Don't Ask"

September 25, 2018 by Julie Harris Oliver in activism, Coaching, capital, Consulting, Diversity, entertainment, entrepreneur, Film & TV, hollywood, human rights, investment, Politics, women, Writers

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Sara is the co-author, with Linda Babcock, of two groundbreaking books about women and negotiation, Women Don’t Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation—and Positive Strategies for Change and Ask for It! How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want.

From Sara’s bio, “Whether they want higher salaries, better career opportunities, or more help at home, women are much less likely than men to ask for what they want. When women do ask, they tend to mimic the forceful, competitive negotiating style favored by men, which often backfires. Sara looks at why women feel reluctant to ask for what they need and deserve—and reveals the shockingly high price paid by women, their employers, and the economy as a whole if they don’t address this persistent phenomenon. She shows women how to recognize more opportunities to negotiate, manage the anxiety they may feel when they approach a negotiation, and employ negotiating strategies that have been shown to work especially well for women.

Sara lectures widely and teaches workshops about women and negotiation and women’s leadership challenges for organizations in the U.S. and around the world.”

We are very lucky to have her on the show for a very delicious conversation. We NEED THIS!

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September 25, 2018 /Julie Harris Oliver
women in entertainment, women in business, working women, wage inequality, women's rights are human rights, negotiation, social change, social justice, social conditioning, gender studies, gender equality
activism, Coaching, capital, Consulting, Diversity, entertainment, entrepreneur, Film & TV, hollywood, human rights, investment, Politics, women, Writers
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Episode 48: Kate Hearst, Film Historian, Professor, Writer

June 06, 2017 by Julie Harris Oliver in DGA, Diversity, documentary, entertainment, Film & TV, hollywood, soap opera, women

Kate is a filmmaker, historian, writer and professor.  After earning her Ph.D. in History and M.F.A. in film, both at Columbia University, she has been teaching film history at Sarah Lawrence College, the Fierstein Graduate School of Cinema, and at Brooklyn College.  Currently, she is working on several projects about women: a book on the cinema of Barbara Kopple, and a history of Phoebe Hearst and the Coming of Age of San Francisco, 1860-1919. She also writes reviews for Film International, and serves as a juror and moderator at the Middlebury Film Festival.

We talked a lot about how women are left out of the canon in film schools.  And for young people in school, they need to start questioning why there aren’t any women on the syllabus.  It’s probably not conscious exclusion, it’s just the way it’s always been.  Let’s change that.

You can find out more about Kate on her website here: www.khearst.com.

June 06, 2017 /Julie Harris Oliver
film & TV, women in film, gender equality, gender studies, film history, director
DGA, Diversity, documentary, entertainment, Film & TV, hollywood, soap opera, women
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