About Sara
News & Media
- Newsy Morning Rush Women Under 30 Closing the Wage Gap April 4, 2022
- Best and Worst States for Women March 1, 2021* York Festival of Ideas, March 8, 2021
- WalletHub Best and Worst States for Women March 1, 2021
- ForbesWomen Why Do Women Make Such Good Leaders During COVID-19? by Cami Anderson, April 19, 2020
- Forbes What Women—and Men—Need to Know to Do Their Best Negotiating by Naomi Cahn, January 9, 2020
- FM: Financial Management Salary Negotiation Strategies to Boost Your Income by Hannah Pitstick, October 4, 2019
- Good Housekeeping What is the Gender Wage Gap? You've Heard the Phrase, but Do You Really Know What It Means and How It Affects Your Paycheck? by Beth Dreher, June 12, 2019
- Forbes Why Women Should Ask for More Deadline Extensions by Kim Elsesser, May 28, 2019
- TIME What To Do If You're Being Paid Less Than a Man Doing the Same Job? by Tara Law, April 2, 2019
- Thrive Global Three Reasons You Aren't Earning the Salary You Deserve, by Kelli Thompson, March 30, 2019
- AlterNet Women Won't Ask a Man for More Pay—But They Will Ask a Woman, by Aeon, January 21, 2019
- The New Yorker How the BBC Women Are Working Toward Equal Pay, by Lauren Collins, July 16, 2018
- Newsweek ‘All the Money in the World.’ But Not Enough to Pay Men and Women the Same by Joanna L. Grossman. January 17, 2018
- Boston Magazine Boston Has Eliminated Sexism in the Workplace. Right? by Sarah Green Carmichael. June 23, 2017
- MOTTO: Words to Live By Why Equal Pay Day Should Be Equal Ask Day by Gloria Feldt. April 3, 2017
Podcasts
- Negotiations Ninja: Why Women Need to Embrace a Social Style of Negotiation, with Mark Raffan
- Your Kick-Ass Life: What Holds Women Back in the Workplace, with Andrea Owen
- Life Negotiations with Lousin Mehrabi How Women Can Get What They Want
- Ask With Confidence: Negotiation with Women in Mind: Why Women Don't Ask and How We Can Be Successful, with Katherine Knapke
- Things I Found Online: Empowering Women & Professional Growth Tips with Louise Palanker
- Fire It Up With CJ: Salary Negotiation: Techniques and Tips, with CJ Liu
- The Straight Shift with the Car Chick: Why Women Pay More for Cars than Men, with LeeAnn Shattuck
- The Other 50%: Herstory of Hollywood. Women Don't Ask, with Julie Harris Walker
- The Women Offshore: Why Women Don't Ask, with Ally Cedeno
- Convene: How Women Can Become Better Negotiators—for Themselves, with Ashley Milne-Tyte
- Leadstar: A Conversation with Sara Laschever, with Courtney Lynch and Angie Morgan
- The Broad Experience: When Women Ask for a Raise, with Ashley Milne-Tyte
- Texas Conflict Coach: Women Don't Ask: Why They Don't, What They Lose, with Pattie Porter
Affiliations
A leading authority on the challenges that shape women’s lives and careers, Sara Laschever is the co-author, with Linda Babcock, of the groundbreaking books Women Don’t Ask: Negotiation and the Gender Divide (Princeton University Press) and Ask for It! How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want (Bantam Publishing). She has written extensively about women in business, women in literature and the arts, women in academia, and women in the sciences. Her work has been published by The New York Times, The Harvard Business Review, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, Vogue, Glamour, and many other publications.
Sara worked as a research associate and principal interviewer for Project Access, a landmark Harvard University study that explored impediments to women’s careers in science, and is a founding faculty member of the Carnegie Mellon Leadership and Negotiation Academy for Women. She also served as Senior Fellow at the Center for Work-Life Policy (now the Center for Talent Innovation) and as academic coordinator for the Inaugural WIN Summit, a national conference focused on helping women learn to negotiate.
Sara Laschever earned her bachelor’s degree (summa cum laude) from Princeton University and a master’s degree from Boston University. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts.