Proposing that negotiation is a social skill that women must learn to use in the workplace, this groundbreaking book argues that the ability to negotiate is no longer a luxury but a necessity. In a time when increasingly complex career paths are available to women, the ability to be a self advocate and ask directly for advancement is the final frontier towards gender equality in the workplace. With humor and candor, this book addresses the ways in which institutions, child-rearing practices, and unspoken assumptions perpetuate inequalities that are not only fundamentally unfair but also inefficient and economically unsound.