For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sheryl Sandberg and Mary Beard, Women and Leadership is a powerful call to arms about the lack of women at the top.

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Women make up less than 10 per cent of national leaders. Behind this  statistic lies a pattern of unequal access to power. Drawing on current  research and in conversation with some of the world's most powerful and  interesting women about their lived experience, Gillard and  Okonjo-Iweala explore gender bias and ask how we get more women into  leadership roles. 

Speaking honestly and freely, women leaders such as Jacinda Ardern, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Bachelet and Theresa May  talk about their ideas receiving less acknowledgement than their male  colleagues' ideas, what it's like to be body-shamed in the media, and  the things they wish they had done differently. Their stories reveal how  gender and sexism affect perceptions of women as leaders, their  pathways to power and the circumstances in which their leadership comes  to an end. 

The result is a rare insight into life as a leader and a  powerful call to arms for women everywhere.