When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. For
When a man helps a colleague, the recipient feels indebted to him and is highly likely to return the favor. But when a woman helps out, the feeling of indebtedness is weaker. She’s communal, right? Sh...
When a kid struggles at math, instead of saying, Maybe math isn’t one of your strengths, Dweck recommends, The feeling of math being hard is the feeling of your brain growing.
What is your biggest problem, and how can I solve it?
We find our humanity—our will to live and our ability to love—in our connections to one another.
We can joke, as Marlo Thomas did, that a man has to be Joe McCarthy in order to be called ruthless. All a woman needs to do is put you on hold. Real change will come when powerful women are less of an...
There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other
There are several explanations offered as to why women have lower aspirations than men, including that women feel there is a lack of fit between themselves (their personal characteristics) and senior...
The promise of equality is not the same as true equality. A
The beauty of the impostor syndrome is you vacillate between extreme egomania, and a complete feeling of: ‘I’m a fraud! Oh god, they’re on to me! I’m a fraud!
The ability to listen is as important as the ability to speak.
That’s the thing about faith…it helps you know that sooner or later this too shall pass.
Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
Taking initiative pays off. It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.
Resilience comes from deep within us and from support outside us. It comes from gratitude for what’s good in our lives and from leaning in to the suck.
Our entrenched cultural ideas associate men with leadership qualities and women with nurturing qualities and put women in a double bind, she said. We believe not only that women are nurturing, but tha...
Nice sends a message that the woman is willing to sacrifice pay to be liked by others.
Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
Millennial women are less likely than Millennial men to agree that the statement I aspire to a leadership role in whatever field I ultimately work descried them very well. Millennial women were also l...