Lift Every Voice June 7, 2012My LifeOff

When Cokie Roberts, 68, started her career, she says workplace discrimination was accepted – and legal.

The three-time Emmy award-winning journalist and bestselling author learned that, for women to succeed, they’d have to fight to be heard. She’s been speaking out ever since.

(Click here to read her exclusive profile!)

She’s a “founding mother” of NPR and currently works as their senior news analyst, a political commentator for ABC News and a newspaper columnist.

The former president of the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association has won numerous awards – including the Edward Weintal Prize for Diplomatic Reporting. American Women in Radio and Television named her one of the 50 greatest women in the history of broadcasting. And she’s a breast cancer survivor on top of it all.

Little PINK Book: What’s the biggest issue for working women today?

Cokie Roberts: Balance. The majority of people coming out of college and graduate school are female. If women find a hostile work environment where they can’t do the things they need to do to take care of their families, we lose the best and the brightest. The workplace has to be far more flexible and accommodating. 

Little PINK Book: What’s your success secret?

CR: Working very hard. Women my age, we came into the workforce when it was legal to say, “We don’t hire women to do that.” We had to work harder than the guys and be smarter, but that wasn’t hard. [Laughs]

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By Caroline Cox

“The main way you [succeed is] to have your work speak for itself.” Cokie Roberts

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