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Knowing Your Value: Women, Money and Getting What You're Worth [Hardcover]

Mika Brzezinski (Author)
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Book Description

April 26, 2011
It's no secret that women have long been overlooked and under-compensated, and while great strides have made in recent decades, the value placed on women versus their male counterparts is still consistently unbalanced. In Knowing Your Value, bestselling author Mika Brzezinski takes an in-depth look at how women today achieve their deserved recognition and financial worth.

Prompted by her own experience as co-host of Morning Joe, Mika interviews a number of prominent women across a wide range of industries on their experience moving up in their fields. Mika reveals how these women, including such impresarios as White House star Valerie Jarrett, comedian Susie Essman, writer and director Nora Ephron, Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg, and broadcaster Joy Behar, navigated the inevitable roadblocks that are unique to women. Mika also uncovers what men think about the approach women take in the workplace, getting honest answers from Donnie Deutsch, Jack Welch, Donald Trump, and others about why women are paid less, and what pitfalls women face--and play into--as they try to get their worth at work. Knowing Your Value blends these personal stories and opinions with the latest research and polling on issues such as equal pay, women in the boardroom, and access to start-up capital.

Written in Mika's brutally honest, funny, and self-deprecating style, Knowing Your Value is a vital book for professional women of all ages.


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TheAtlantic.com
"A rallying cry for women to get the money they deserve."

Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook
“A lot of getting ahead in the workplace has to do with being willing to raise your hand…If we as women don’t raise our hands in the workplace, we’re not going to get the same opportunities men do. Because men keep their hands up.”
 
Nora Ephron, writer and director
“The words favored nations—that’s an expression all women should know. In other words, you always want to be paid no less than what anyone else is being paid.”
 
Arianna Huffington, president and editor in chief of the Huffington Post Media Group
“Just look around and you’ll see plenty of evidence that asking for what we want results not in the realization of our own worst fears but in getting what we want.”
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Mika Brzezinski is a co-host of Morning Joe, an MSNBC anchor and author of the New York Times bestseller All Things at Once. She is the mother of two daughters, Emilie and Carlie, and is married to an investigative journalist at ABC.

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Weinstein Books (April 26, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 160286134X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1602861343
  • Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (48 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,966 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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47 of 56 people found the following review helpful
By utka
Format:Hardcover
I have to admit, I did not have much of an expectation regarding this book. I picked it up at the bookstore to leaf through out of curiosity since I regularly watch the morning show she's on , and at times not really understanding the role she plays. What a surprise this book turned out to be!I could not put it down and ended up buying it and now buying many copies for my friends, mentorees and daughter in laws. I have spent the past 35 years , some would say very successfully, working myself up the corporate ladder, ending up as president of business units and companies. I experienced what she and her contributors have described in this book and I wish I had a book like this to read to 1) understand why I was behaving and feeling like I did, 2) why I let bosses and companies take advantage of me 3)understand better how to get for myself what I deserved....and overall to know I was not alone in this situation.
I think this book is a great resource for every woman, and especially relevant for young women starting out on the corporate ladder, especially when there is so much "fluff" is written on career advice. I admire Mika B's honesty, and her access to prominent women is really helpful in that, their stories may provide the motivation for some women to act on the advice given in this book.
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18 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book was very simplistic and didn't offer much insights. In short, all it really said was (i) know your worth by being aware of market salaries, (ii) ask for what you are worth and frame the argument in terms that your employer cares about, and (iii) be prepared to leave for greener pastures if your employer won't pay you what you are worth. First few pages were the best but they turned out to be a teaser with little wood behind the arrow.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Disappointing and dampening October 30, 2011
Format:Hardcover
As a regular Morning Joe watcher, I'm a fan of Mika's and was excited to see what advice her wealth of respected experience would yield for this book. I was so disappointed to find that rather than using her pages to uplift women, she basically aired and re-aired her job grievances over and over again in an ineffective and largely uninteresting read. The book was unfocused and meandering. What I'd hoped would be more of a guidebook for how to determine and get what you're worth was actually a pretty defeatist smattering of high-powered women and their complaints about how men are paid more. Mika didn't actually get to how this is changing every day or give concrete advice for how you move past what roadblocks you may face as a woman in the workplace. An unfortunate use of her visibility as a highly successful woman.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Advice worth reading
As with any book there are parts I will look past but the nuts and bolts of her advice makes sense and since reading this book have put the advce into practice with positive... Read more
Published 21 days ago by wateverlolawnts
Knowing your value
I enjoyed this book. I actually bought it for my granddaughter but you really need to know about the show she is on, Morning Joe, to get anything out of this book, so I will just... Read more
Published 1 month ago by A. B. Knight
OMG...I think my IQ dropped 10 points reading this
A book for idiots written by the Queen of Idiots. My brain went into rebellion at the end of the first page.
Published 1 month ago by BandrewEitbart
Worth Reading
This book helped me to identify some things about myself that I was unaware of. Being a woman in the corporate world, I didn't realize how I create my own destiny and then sit... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Schnozzlepoo
Entertaining read, no significant new information
Knowing Your Value is a light, relatively entertaining self-help book filled with many anecdotes from successful women about their struggle to make their value known in the... Read more
Published 3 months ago by J. Santiago
Easy Read--Relatable Stories from Various Women
After reading the bashing reviews, I expected to find a lot more self-promotion in this book but it wasn't like that at all, in my opinion. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Lisa
A Must-Read for anyone who truly hates her Daughters!
In their newest on-air promos for the show, each of her Morning Joe collegues makes good-natured fun of himself: Scarboro has to be pulled away from playing dice to get to the... Read more
Published 5 months ago by PhilW
Buy This Book!
This book is a must read for all women starting out or in the middle of their careers. Mika Brzezinski's witty and frank writing style is refreshing and informative. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Elsie McCarthy
Buy it before your annual review
I bought this book during that famous period of should-I-stay-or-should-I-go from my current job. After agonizing whether I should ask my boss to counter offer, and wondering... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Leigh
Valuable for any woman to read who is concerned about being paid her...
This book is full of hard-earned wisdom and experience-based advice about understanding your worth. There are a number of important themes, as well as relatable examples of very... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Michal Clements
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