The Ambition Penalty, 9780349448220
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Wanting more costs women? Explore ambition’s hidden penalties and fight back.
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The Ambition Penalty

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    4 May 2026

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Summary

We spoke up. We took charge. We asked for more. But where has it actually left us? Not only are generations of women more burnt out than ever, but the gender pay gap has barely budged in decades.

In The Ambition Penalty, journalist Stefanie O’Connell presents a deeply researched and sometimes shocking look at the ways women remain passed over and excluded, not for a lack of ambition, but because of it. She calls it ‘the ambition penalty’ - the sum of the financial, personal, …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780349448220
ISBN-10:0349448221
Author:Stefanie O'Connell
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Piatkus Books
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:4 May 2026
Weight:0g
Dimensions:234mm x 153mm x 22mm
About The Author

Stefanie O'Connell

Stefanie O’Connell is an award-winning journalist covering money, power, and ambition whose work has been published in Slate, Bloomberg, Newsweek, USA Today, Glamour UK, Business Insider, and CNBC. She wrote, hosted, and coproduced Real Simple magazine’s winning podcast Money Confidential and publishes the Too Ambitious newsletter. O’Connell lives in New York City.

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