The Panic Years: 'Every millennial woman should have this on her bookshelf' Pandora Sykes by Nell Frizzell

Machiavelli For Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace by Stacey Vanek Smith

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/403845 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/403845] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Machiavelli For Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace Author: Stacey Vanek Smith Narrator: Stacey Vanek Smith Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 16 minutes Release date: September 7, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.58 of Total 12 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: 2022 BUSINESS/PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AUDIE AWARD WINNER! From the NPR host of The Indicator and correspondent for Planet Money comes an “accessible, funny, clear-eyed, and practical” (Sarah Knight, New York Times bestselling author) guide for how women can apply the principles of 16th-century philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli to their work lives and finally shatter the glass ceiling—perfect for fans of Feminist Fight Club, Lean In, and Nice Girls Don’t Get the Corner Office. Women have been making strides towards equality for decades, or so we’re often told. They’ve been increasingly entering male-dominated areas of the workforce and consistently surpassing their male peers in grades, university attendance, and degrees. They’ve recently stormed the political arena with a vengeance. But despite all of this, the payoff is—quite literally—not there: the gender pay gap has held steady at about 20% since 2000. And the number of female CEOs for Fortune 500 companies has actually been declining. So why, in the age of #MeToo and #TimesUp, is the glass ceiling still holding strong? And how can we shatter it for once and for all? Stacy Vanek Smith’s advice: ask Machiavelli “with this delicious look at what we have to gain by examining our relationship to power” (Sally Helgesen, New York Times bestselling author). Using The Prince as a guide and with charm and wit, Smith applies Renaissance politics to the 21st century, and demonstrates how women can take and maintain power in careers where they have long been cast as second-best. “Machiavelli For Women is the ultimate battle guide for our times. Brimming with hard-boiled strategies, laced with wit, it’s a must-read for every woman ready to wield power unapologetically” (Claire Shipman, coauthor of The Confidence Code).

The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage by Sasha Issenberg

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/396856 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/396856] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Engagement: America's Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage Author: Sasha Issenberg Narrator: Graham Halstead Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 33 hours 47 minutes Release date: June 1, 2021 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The riveting story of the conflict over same-sex marriage in the United States—the most significant civil rights breakthrough of the new millennium 'Full of intimate details, battling personalities, heated court cases, public persuasion.”  —John Williams, The New York Times On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal across the United States. But the road to that momentous decision was much longer than many know. In this definitive account, Sasha Issenberg vividly guides us through same-sex marriage’s unexpected path from the unimaginable to the inevitable. It is a story that begins in Hawaii in 1990, when a rivalry among local activists triggered a sequence of events that forced the state to justify excluding gay couples from marriage. In the White House, one president signed the Defense of Marriage Act, which elevated the matter to a national issue, and his successor tried to write it into the Constitution. Over twenty-five years, the debate played out across the country, from the first legal same-sex weddings in Massachusetts to the epic face-off over California’s Proposition 8 and, finally, to the landmark Supreme Court decisions of United States v. Windsor and Obergefell v. Hodges. From churches to hedge funds, no corner of American life went untouched. This richly detailed narrative follows the coast-to-coast conflict through courtrooms and war rooms, bedrooms and boardrooms, to shed light on every aspect of a political and legal controversy that divided Americans like no other. Following a cast of characters that includes those who sought their own right to wed, those who fought to protect the traditional definition of marriage, and those who changed their minds about it, The Engagement is certain to become a seminal book on the modern culture wars.

Why Women Are Poorer Than Men and What We Can Do About It by Annabelle Williams

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/400584 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/400584] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Why Women Are Poorer Than Men and What We Can Do About It Author: Annabelle Williams Narrator: Annabelle Williams Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 57 minutes Release date: March 4, 2021 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Money gives us freedom. It may not buy us happiness, but having it allows us to make choices . . . The choice to live where you want. The choice to do what you love for work. The choice over how you spend your free time. But what if you knew that you would earn less than your male counterparts for the rest of your life? Today, being a woman means that you will. Few of us ever talk about it, but great economic inequality still exists between men and women. · There is no country in the world where women collectively earn as much as men. · Globally only 34% of women hold managerial positions. · Only 1p in every £1of venture capital funding goes to start-ups run by women. · Research has even found that financial advisors encourage female clients into lower risk, and therefore lower return, investments in the belief that they can't handle the risk. · In many countries tampons and sanitary pads are seen as 'luxuries' that women are made to pay tax on. · It has been found that women ask for pay rises at the same frequency as men, but are 25% less likely to be given them. Annabelle Williams, a financial journalist for The Times, uncovers the shocking realities of money in the modern world. Awareness is the first step to making change, which is why we all need to understand why women are poorer than men and what exactly we can do about it. © Annabelle Williams 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

The Panic Years: 'Every millennial woman should have this on her bookshelf' Pandora Sykes by Nell Frizzell

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/398033 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/398033] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Panic Years: 'Every millennial woman should have this on her bookshelf' Pandora Sykes Author: Nell Frizzell Narrator: Nell Frizzell Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 27 minutes Release date: February 11, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. 'Every millennial woman should have it on her bookshelf.' Pandora Sykes, journalist and co-host of The High Low Podcast The Panic Years: something between adolescence and menopause, a personal crisis, a transformation. The panic years can hit at any time but they are most commonly triggered somewhere between the ages of twenty-five and forty. During this time, every decision a woman makes - from postcode to partner, friends to family, work to weekends - will be impacted by the urgency of the one decision with a deadline, the one decision that is impossible to take back: whether or not to have a baby. But how to stay sane in such a maddening time? How to understand who you are and what you might want from life? How to know if you're making the right decisions? Raw, hilarious and beguilingly honest, Nell Frizzell's account of her panic years is both an arm around the shoulder and a campaign to start a conversation. This affects us all - women, men, mothers, children, partners, friends, colleagues - so it's time we started talking about it with a little more candour. 'Vital reading. Nell Frizzell is a master.' Rob Delaney, co-writer and co-star of Catastrophe © Nell Frizzell 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted by Suleika Jaouad

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/392060 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/392060] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted Author: Suleika Jaouad Narrator: Suleika Jaouad Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 13 hours 2 minutes Release date: February 9, 2021 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.42 of Total 91 Ratings of Narrator: 4.65 of Total 23 Genres: Social Science Publisher's Summary: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A deeply moving memoir of illness and recovery that traces one young woman’s journey from diagnosis to remission to re-entry into “normal” life—from the founder of The Isolation Journals and a subject of the Netflix documentary American Symphony ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Rumpus, She Reads, Library Journal, Booklist “I was immersed for the whole ride and would follow Jaouad anywhere. . . . Her writing restores the moon, lights the way as we learn to endure the unknown.”—Chanel Miller, The New York Times Book Review   “Beautifully crafted . . . affecting . . . a transformative read . . . Jaouad’s insights about the self, connectedness, uncertainty and time speak to all of us.”—The Washington Post In the summer after graduating from college, Suleika Jaouad was preparing, as they say in commencement speeches, to enter “the real world.” She had fallen in love and moved to Paris to pursue her dream of becoming a war correspondent. The real world she found, however, would take her into a very different kind of conflict zone. It started with an itch—first on her feet, then up her legs, like a thousand invisible mosquito bites. Next came the exhaustion, and the six-hour naps that only deepened her fatigue. Then a trip to the doctor and, a few weeks shy of her twenty-third birthday, a diagnosis: leukemia, with a 35 percent chance of survival. Just like that, the life she had imagined for herself had gone up in flames. By the time Jaouad flew home to New York, she had lost her job, her apartment, and her independence. She would spend much of the next four years in a hospital bed, fighting for her life and chronicling the saga in a column for The New York Times. When Jaouad finally walked out of the cancer ward—after countless rounds of chemo, a clinical trial, and a bone marrow transplant—she was, according to the doctors, cured. But as she would soon learn, a cure is not where the work of healing ends; it’s where it begins. She had spent the past 1,500 days in desperate pursuit of one goal—to survive. And now that she’d done so, she realized that she had no idea how to live. How would she reenter the world and live again? How could she reclaim what had been lost? Jaouad embarked—with her new best friend, Oscar, a scruffy terrier mutt—on a 100-day, 15,000-mile road trip across the country. She set out to meet some of the strangers who had written to her during her years in the hospital: a teenage girl in Florida also recovering from cancer; a teacher in California grieving the death of her son; a death-row inmate in Texas who’d spent his own years confined to a room. What she learned on this trip is that the divide between sick and well is porous, that the vast majority of us will travel back and forth between these realms throughout our lives. Between Two Kingdoms is a profound chronicle of survivorship and a fierce, tender, and inspiring exploration of what it means to begin again.