Sara Laschever
Co-author, Women Don't Ask and Ask For It: How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want, Carnegie Mellon Leadership & Negotiation Academy for Women
Sara Laschever is an author, editor, and cultural critic who has spent her career investigating the barriers that shape womens lives and careers. She has written extensively about women in academia, women in literature and the arts, women in the sciences, and women in business. Her work has been published by The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Harvard Business Review, Vogue, Glamour, WomensBiz, and many other publications. She is the co-author, with Linda Babcock, of two groundbreaking books about women and negotiation, Women Dont Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiationand Positive Strategies for Change (Princeton University Press, 2003) and Ask for It! How Women Can Use the Power of Negotiation to Get What They Really Want (Bantam Publishing, 2007).
Sara is frequently cited in the national and international media as an expert on the persistence of the wage gap, women and conflict resolution, work-life balance issues, and the multiple factors influencing womens long-term career success. She lectures and teaches workshops about women and negotiation for corporate audiences, colleges and universities, law firms, government agencies, and womens leadership conferences in the U.S. and around the world. She is a founding faculty member of the Carnegie Mellon Leadership and Negotiation Academy for Women and the Academic Coordinator for the WIN Summit, a global womens conference focused on women and negotiation.
Sara Laschever earned her bachelors degree summa cum laude from Princeton University and a masters degree from Boston University. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts.
Sara is frequently cited in the national and international media as an expert on the persistence of the wage gap, women and conflict resolution, work-life balance issues, and the multiple factors influencing womens long-term career success. She lectures and teaches workshops about women and negotiation for corporate audiences, colleges and universities, law firms, government agencies, and womens leadership conferences in the U.S. and around the world. She is a founding faculty member of the Carnegie Mellon Leadership and Negotiation Academy for Women and the Academic Coordinator for the WIN Summit, a global womens conference focused on women and negotiation.
Sara Laschever earned her bachelors degree summa cum laude from Princeton University and a masters degree from Boston University. She lives in Concord, Massachusetts.