Mary Ann Sieghart’s The Authority Gap is published by Penguin ... They weren’t taken seriously. There were 4.9 times as many likes and retweets for male political journalists than female ones across ...

In the Radio 4 programme Analysis, Mary Ann Sieghart asks ... mainly female agents seemed to think she was eight-and-a-half times better at writing under a man’s name than a woman’s.

Every day Mary Ann Sieghart blanks friends and colleagues in the street - some people think she is the rudest woman they know. She has prosopagnosia, more commonly known as face blindness.