Podcast: Are women taken less seriously in the workplace?

British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves is not only a rarity because she is the first woman to hold this post; she is also one of the few economists to do that. Yet her competence as Minister of Finance is constantly attacked in the media.

Mary Ann Sieghart, visiting professor at the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership at King’s College London, says this is partly due to the “authority gap.” It’s a phenomenon where female leaders are still taken less seriously than their male counterparts, she explains. In this episode of In the citySieghart tells hosts Francine Lacqua, David Merritt and Allegra Stratton why women are less likely to be considered competent and how this impacts workplace culture and the bottom line.