That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together

Joanne Lipman's 'no man-shaming' field guide to men and women working together, built from three years of research and her own climb to deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal. She documents the respect gap, unconscious bias, who gets heard in meetings, the pay and promotion gap, and the 'motherhood penalty' — then offers evidence-backed tools, like 'brag buddies' and interruption rules, for closing them. The book is relentlessly solution-oriented and aimed squarely at male executives.

Lipman's core argument is that the gender gap at work is an operational problem with operational answers, not an ideological one — which is exactly why Cuban called it 'a must read for every male executive who wants to get it right.' There is abundant evidence that companies with more women in senior leadership perform better by virtually every measure, so closing the gap is not charity, it is better talent allocation. The founder's takeaway: the tools — who gets interrupted, who gets credit, who gets the promotion — are management decisions an executive controls directly.