Ep 65 | Who The Ambition Penalty Really Hurts

In this episode, Priya Malani sits down with journalist and author Stephanie O'Connell to name something ambitious women feel constantly but rarely have language for: you can do everything right and still feel like you're paying for it. Stephanie's book, The Ambition Penalty, traces why the gender pay gap hasn't moved in two decades and why treating structural problems as personal failures is exactly how those systems stay intact. The conversation covers everything from workplace dynamics to the unpaid labor quietly subsidizing men's careers at home — and why opting out of ambition isn't the answer. Takeaways:The gender pay gap has been locked in place for over 20 years, even as women have outpaced men in education for decades.Married men earn significantly more than single men, largely because women's unpaid labor subsidizes their availability at work.When women internalize frustration as a personal failure, it protects the systems producing unequal outcomes, which is not a side effect of those systems. It is the point. Follow Priya Malani:LinkedIn | Instagram | Stash Wealth | YouTubeGuest Bio: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.com. She wrote, hosted, and co-produced Real Simple magazine’s Webby Award–winning podcast Money Confidential and publishes the Too Ambitious newsletter. O’Connell lives in New York City.Guest Links:Pre-order The Ambition PenaltyThe Stuff Our Lawyers Want Us to Say:Stash Wealth is a Registered Investment Advisor. Content presented is for informational and educational purposes only and is not intended to make an offer or solicitation for any specific securities product, service, or strategy. Consult with a qualified investment adviser (that's us) before implementing any strategy. Investing involves risk, including the loss of principal. Past performance does not guarantee future results. There…we said it.