We Need to Talk About Money: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

You know that the “money is bad” narrative is a myth that keeps people of color and particularly women suppressed and controlled. Yet, you still consume it through media, religion, people in your circle, and so on, and it leaves you feeling guilty about your ambition, subconsciously sabotaging your goals. You question every common narrative that po

We face a whole array of challenges in this area, from basic considerations, like earning enough money, to worrying about how we’ll be perceived by people around us for taking a different approach to work and life, to even feeling a sense of guilt for “giving up” what so many hardworking women struggled to have the opportunity to achieve.

Women’s equality, it was now said, was a $28 trillion opportunity. This had become a near-constant refrain in MarketWorld—some permutation of the words “women,” “equality,” and “trillion.” If the logic of our time had applied to the facts of an earlier age, someone would have put out a report suggesting that ending slavery was great for reducing th

The central conflict, which I hope has been made clear throughout this book, is that while feminist movements seek to change systems, marketplace feminism prioritizes individuals.

When it comes to women’s and gender equality, backlash will probably always sell better than consensus, individual exceptionalism better than collective effort, and choice better than almost anything else.