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Mary Ann Sieghart

Portrait of Mary Ann Sieghart

Mary Ann Sieghart is a journalist and broadcaster who spent three decades covering British politics. She served 19 years as Assistant Editor of The Times, presented multiple programmes on BBC, and has written for the FT, The Economist, and The Independent. Mary Ann is a Non-Executive Director of the Guardian Media Group, and sits on numerous boards. She is the author of the best-selling book The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It, which she researched while being a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford. Mary Ann holds a PPE degree from the University of Oxford.

An illustration depicting a man and a woman with a gap between them, representing inequality.

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OxPol Blogcast showcases research, analysis, insights, and experiences from the members of the University of Oxford’s Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR), and specialist guests from the Oxford academic community and beyond. Are women taken less seriously than men in politics? What causes the authority gap, and how is it manifested? On this episode of the OxPol Blogcast, host Anastasia Bektimirova welcomes Mary Ann Sieghart, the author of the best-selling book The Authority Gap: Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously Than Men, and What We Can Do About It. Having spent three decades covering British politics as a journalist, Mary Ann draws on her observations and interviews with fifty of the world’s most powerful, successful and authoritative women to discuss the experiences and causes of the …