Marketplace host Kai Ryssdal speaks with NPR’s Stacey Vanek Smith about her new book, Machiavelli For Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition and Win the Workplace

All Things Considered host Michel Martin introduces a segment from Stacey Vanek Smith on how to be heard at work and how people can deal with interruptions, idea stealing and being ignored.

People aiming for higher pay or a promotion may find winning career advice in a 500-year-old treatise that is often assigned reading for college freshmen.

That’s the argument of a new book by Stacey Vanek Smith, whose “Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace” instructs readers on how to gain and hold power in a newly conquered land, or in this case, the modern office.

“Most people dream of having a conversation with a president or a CEO or their favorite movie star or pro athlete. I dreamed of interviewing Janet L. Yellen. She was my Beyonce…”

Forbes: One thing that really, really stinks about being a woman in modern-day America is when the patriarchy makes you feel like a victim. It happens a lot, even to women who would seem to be nobody’s patsy.

It happens in every corner of the business world: in offices, in retail and service spaces, to front-line workers, to executives, to managers, and to entrepreneurs.

NPR’s Planet Money: Women And Work: Our own Stacey Vanek Smith pays close attention to heaps of economic data, especially on data around women in the workplace — so much so it became a book, Machiavelli For Women.

To The Contrary host Bonnie Erbe speaks with Stacey Vanek Smith about how women in the workplace can used 16th century tactics to close the pay gap, and gain agency in their careers.

Planet Money's Stacey Vanek Smith has reported on business and the economy for over 15 years now. She told NPR's Guy Raz that over that time, she's seen the same barriers blocking advancement for women in the workplace again and again. Recently, she's started to recognize that a lot of tools to move past those barriers can be found in the work of Italian philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli.

Tim Ferriss Blog: The following is an excerpt from the new book, Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace. The author, Stacey Vanek Smith (@svaneksmith), is a longtime public radio reporter and host. She currently hosts NPR’s The Indicator from Planet Money, a daily podcast covering business and economics.

BBC: Economist Tim Harford talks to Planet Money’s Stacey Vanek Smith about the gender pay gap in the US and the UK – and how Renaissance writer, Machiavelli might be an unlikely source of inspiration for women in the workplace.

NEW YORK, May 3 (Reuters) - When it comes to the status of women in the workplace, there are decades of talk and not enough action. The gender pay gap is still enormous, and CEOs are still overwhelmingly male, as are corporate boards.

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ICYMI: the pandemic was rough on women. (Hi, shecession.) Millions dropped out of the workforce, erasing years of progress toward gender economic equality.

So where do we go from here?

Stacey Vanek Smith has some (well-researched) ideas.

NPR’s It’s Been a Minute Host Sam Sanders speaks with Stacey Vanek Smith about her book, what inspired it and what she hopes it will bring to readers.

Stacey Vanek Smith is an accomplished public radio journalist whom you can hear every weekday hosting the podcast The Indicator from Planet Money. Her first book, Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace, is a surprising mix of strategies for navigating today’s office and office politics and the ideas of the notorious 16th-century political theorist.

Host Guy Raz speaks with Author Stacey Vanek Smith about women in the workplace. Despite the barriers women have broken in recent decades, equality in the workforce has not arrived. The U.S. gender pay gap has held steady at about 20% since 2000, female CEOs remain rare and the coronavirus pandemic set back years‘ worth of progress for women around the world.

The Zoe Report: Much has been written of late about the great "she-cession," but NPR economics and business reporter Stacey Vanek Smith has been circling this subject for years, well before the pandemic. The great gender pay gap was a story that had no place in the modern world, and yet the stories kept cropping up.

NPR Turns 50! Its Hosts and Stars Share Their Favorite NPR Moments, Memories and Near-Disasters

National Public Radio has been on the air for a half-century of breaking news, explaining current events and keeping millions of people entertained and informed on their drives. Some of NPR's top names look back at the funniest, wildest and most memorable moments of their careers

Broadcasting From Closets at Home, Daily Podcasts Come of Age

When it’s time to get to work, after a morning teleconference and a cup (or two) of coffee, Cardiff Garcia combs his hair, heads into the closet of his Upper West Side apartment and hangs a blanket over his head. Waiting for his FaceTime call is Stacey Vanek Smith, who answers from a makeshift fort — her own blanket, stretched over two side chairs — that she rebuilds each day in her Brooklyn living room.

STACEY VANEK SMITH ’99 RECORDS ECONOMICS PODCAST FROM DIY SOUNDBOOTH

In difficult times, it can be tempting to want to hide under your bed covers until it’s safe again. For Stacey Vanek Smith ’99, co-host of “The Indicator” podcast from National Public Radio’s Planet Money, throwing a comforter over her head has literally become part of her daily routine during the current COVID-19 crisis.