Why Men Still Win at Work | How To Academy

Tue, 22 July 2025

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm BST

Why Men Still Win at Work

Cordelia Fine In Conversation with Hannah MacInnes

Award-winning scientist Cordelia Fine offers a razor-sharp and quick-witted analysis of why we need a new approach to fixing gender inequality at work.

The most lucrative industries are male-dominated – yet half of men think they’re the ones being discriminated against.

Post #MeToo, we’re all committed to stamping out sexual harassment – but not to changing the conditions that foster it.

Women work more hours than men and accumulate less wealth – while many children want more time with their dad.

Inequality in the workplace impacts all areas of our lives, from health and self-development to economic security and family life. But, despite the world’s richest countries’ long-avowed commitments to gender equality, there is still so much to fix – and so much we don’t see.

With perceptive and razor-sharp insight, award-winning author Cordelia Fine joins us to reveal how the status quo is harming us all, in our working lives and beyond. Drawing on social and cultural history, examples from hunter-forager societies to high finance and the latest thinking in evolutionary science, she will dismantle the existing, inadequate visions for gender equality and chart an inspiring path towards a fairer and freer society.

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Cordelia Fine

Psychologist and Philosopher

Cordelia Fine is a Canadian-born British academic and writer. She is the author of three popular science books, published in 13 languages. Among other accolades, Testosterone Rex won the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize. Delusions of Gender was listed in ‘Ten books about women that will change your life’ (Sunday Times), ’22 books women think men should read’ (Huffington Post), ‘Top 10 books on women in the past 30 years’ (The Australian) and the New York Public Library’s ‘Essential Reads on Feminism, 100 Years After the 19th Amendment’, among others.

Hannah MacInnes

Journalist and Broadcaster

Hannah MacInnes is a broadcaster and journalist. Alongside hosting How To Academy’s live programmes and podcast, she presents a cultural show on Times Radio and interviews on-stage at a number of other major literary events. She is the host of The Klosters Forum Podcast series and has written for the Radio Times, the Evening Standard and TLS. Before going freelance she worked for 8 years at BBC Newsnight, as Planning Editor and as a Producer / Filmmaker.