Anyone lucky enough to have options should keep them open. Don’t enter the workforce already looking for the exit. Don’t put on the brakes. Accelerate. Keep a foot on the gas pedal until a decision mu...
Another one of my favorite posters at Facebook declares in big red letters, Done is better than perfect. I have tried to embrace this motto and let go of unattainable standards. Aiming for perfection...
Also—and many might find this the most motivating factor—couples who share domestic responsibilities have more sex.
A traumatic experience is a seismic event that shakes our belief in a just world, robbing us of the sense that life is controllable, predictable, and meaningful.
Intelligence and success are not clear paths to popularity at any age. This complicates everything, because at the same time women need to...own their success, doing so causes them to be liked less.
Just being nice is not a winning strategy. Nice sends a message that the woman is willing to sacrifice pay to be liked by others. This is why a woman needs to combine niceness with insistence, a style...
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There is no perfect fit when you’re looking for the next big thing to do. You have to take opportunities and make an opportunity fit for you, rather than the other way around. The ability to learn is...
The ambition to lean in to your career and run the world. Because the world needs you to change it. Women all around the world are counting on you.
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Success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women.
Men are promoted based on potential, while women are promoted based on past accomplishments.
Long-term success at work often depends on not trying to meet every demand placed on us. The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately—to set limits and stick to t...
Connections that the women made were not extended to him.28 Time and
Your life’s course should not be determined by doing what’s safe and easy but by reaching for what’s challenging and hard: the classes that seem impossible on the first day, but you study enough to pa...
When companies fail, it’s usually for reasons that almost everyone knows but almost no one has voiced. When someone isn’t making good decisions, few have the guts to tell that person, especially if th...
When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less. This truth is both shocking and unsurprising: shocking because no one would ever admit to stereotyping on the basis of gender and unsu...
When a couple announces that they are having a baby, everyone says, Congratulations! to the man and Congratulations! What are you planning on doing about work? to the woman. The broadly held assumptio...
When I wrote Lean In, some people argued that I did not spend enough time writing about the difficulties women face when they don’t have a partner. They were right. I didn’t get it. I didn’t get how h...
When I was on the other side, my reply became, I can’t imagine either, but I have no choice. I