Resilience is not just built in individuals. It is built among individuals—in our neighborhoods, schools, towns, and governments. When we build resilience together, we become stronger ourselves and fo...
Counting our blessings doesn’t boost our confidence or our effort, but counting our contributions can.
If we push hard now, this next wave can be the last wave. In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders
Often without even realizing it, the woman stops reaching for new opportunities. If any are presented to her, she is likely to decline or offer the kind of hesitant yes that gets the project assigned...
Often without realising it, women internalise disparaging cultural attitudes and then echo them back. As a result, women are not just victims of sexist, they can also be perpetrators.
One night, encouraged by the male partners, I puffed away on a cigar—just one of the guys. Except that the smoking nauseated me and I reeked of cigar smoke for days. If that was fitting in, I stuck ou...
When a man is successful, he is liked by both men and women. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less.
So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.
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...
In order to fix the problems we needed to be able to talk about gender without people thinking we were crying for help.
Once a woman achieves success, particularly in a gender-biased context, her capacity to see gender discrimination is reduced.
Sharing financial and child-care responsibilities leads to less guilty moms, more involved dads, and thriving children.
Men need to support women and, I wish it went without saying, women need to support women too.
Be asking instead how I could become resilient. Resilience is the strength and speed of our response to adversity—and we can build it. It isn’t about having a backbone. It’s about strengthening the mu...
Imagine that a career is like a marathon—a long, grueling, and ultimately rewarding endeavor. Now imagine a marathon where both men and women arrive at the starting line equally fit and trained. The g...
Miscommunication is always a two-way street. (p.85)
Personal connections lead to assignments and promotions, so it needs to be okay for men and women to spend informal time together the same way men can. A senior man and a junior man at a bar is seen a...
When I don't feel confident, one tactic I've learned is that it sometimes helps to fake it.
I’m giving you these comments because I have very high expectations and I know that you can reach them. Now
One day she woke up and understood we are all in this together.
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