I turned to her and said, I can’t believe you are going through this again. How are you okay? How can you possibly be okay? She said, I didn’t die. Mel did and Dave did, but I am alive. And I am going...
I learned that effective communication starts with the understanding that there is MY point of view, (my truth), and someone else's point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so pe...
How can I do better? What am I doing that I don't know? What am I not doing that I don't see? These questions can lead to so many benefits. And believe me, the truth hurts. Even when I have solicited...
Hard work and results should be recognized by others, but when they aren't, advocating for oneself becomes necessary. As discussed earlier, this must be done with great care. But it must be done.
Grief, she writes, is a whisper in the world and a clamor within. More than sex, more than faith, even more than its usher death, grief is unspoken, publicly ignored except for those moments at the fu...
Given this, I believe we have sent the wrong message to young women. We need to stop telling them, Get a mentor and you will excel. Instead, we need to tell them, Excel and you will get a mentor.
Girls are increasingly outperforming boys in the classroom, earning about 57 percent of the undergraduate and 60 percent of the master’s degrees in the United States.
Framing the issue as work-life balance – as if the two were diametrically opposed – practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life? (p.24)
For many men, the fundamental assumption is that they can have both a successful professional life and a fulfilling personal life. For many women, the assumption is that trying to do both is difficult...
Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged...
Even when we’re in great distress, joy can still be found in moments we seize and moments we create. Cooking. Dancing. Hiking. Praying. Driving. Singing Billy Joel songs off-key. All of these can prov...
Currently, only 24 percent of women in the United States say that they consider themselves feminists. Yet when offered a more specific definition of feminism--A feminist is someone who believes in soc...
Carol Frohlinger and Deborah Kolb, founders of Negotiating Women, Inc., describe this as the Tiara Syndrome, where women expect that if they keep doing their job well someone will notice them and plac...
Career progression often depends upon taking risks and advocating for oneself—traits that girls are discouraged from exhibiting. This may explain why girls’ academic gains have not yet translated into...
Building resilience depends on the opportunities children have and the relationships they form with parents, caregivers, teachers, and friends. We can start by helping children develop four core belie...
Because the vast majority of leaders are men, it is not possible to generalize from any one example. But the dearth of female leaders causes one woman to be viewed as representative of her entire gend...
As women must be more empowered at work, men must be more empowered at home. I have seen so many women inadvertently discourage their husbands from doing their share by being too controlling or critic...
As former secretary of state Madeleine Albright once said, There’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.
As Gloria Steinem observed, Whoever has power takes over the noun—and the norm—while the less powerful get an adjective.
Anyone who wants her mate to be a true partner must treat him as an equal - and equally capable - partner. And if that's not enough, bear in mind that a study found that wives who engage in gatekeepin...