INTRODUCTION
I'm sorry if this sounds harsh or surprises anyone, but this is where we are. If you want the outcome to be different, you will have to do something about it.
Employed mothers and fathers both struggle with multiple responsibilities, but mothers also have to endure the rude questions and accusatory looks that remind us that we’re shortchanging both our jobs...
Counterintuitively, long-term success at work often depends on not trying to meet every demand placed on us. (p.127)
A woman needs to combine niceness with insistence, a style that Mary Sue Coleman, president of the University of Michigan, calls relentlessly pleasant
In order to fix the problems we needed to be able to talk about gender without people thinking we were crying for help.
At the same time that women need to sit at the table and own their success, doing so causes them to be liked less. Most people, myself included, really want to be liked – and not just because it feels...
For any of us in this room today, let's start out by admitting we're lucky. We don't live in the world our mothers lived in, our grandmothers lived in, where career choices for women were so limited.
We evaluate people based on stereotypes (gender, race, nationality, and age, among others).4 Our stereotype of men holds that they are providers, decisive, and driven. Our stereotype of women holds th...
Counting our blessings doesn’t boost our confidence or our effort, but counting our contributions can.
[T]he real issue was not that I felt like a fraud, but that I could feel something deeply and profoundly and be completely wrong.
Writing this book is not just me encouraging others to lean in. This is me leaning in. Writing this book is what I would do if I weren't afraid.
Women need to shift from thinking I'm not ready to do that to thinking I want to do that - and I'll learn by doing it. (p.62)
When Warren Buffett talks about competing against only half of the population, I think about her and wonder how different her life might have been if she had been born half a century later.
We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in. We internalize the negative messages we get t...
Today, despite all of the gains we have made, neither men nor women have real choice. Until women have supportive employers and colleagues as well as partners who share family responsibilities, they d...
The students rated Heidi and Howard as equally competent, which made sense since their accomplishments were completely identical. Yet while students respected both Heidi and Howard, Howard came across...
The simple act of talking openly about behavioral patterns makes the subconscious conscious.
Reverend Veronica Goines sums this up as, Peace is joy at rest, and joy is peace on its feet.
Psychologists have found that over time we usually regret the chances we missed, not the chances we took.