I truly believe that the single most important career decision that a woman makes is whether she will have a life partner and who that partner is. I don't know of one woman in a leadership position wh...
At times, staying in the same functional area and in the same organization creates inertia and limits opportunity to expand.
When my mother took her turn to sit in a gown at her graduation, she thought she only had two career options: nursing and teaching. She raised me and my sister to believe that we could do anything, an...
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...
She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments.
I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to wor...
We can each define ambition and progress for ourselves. The goal is to work toward a world where expectations are not set by the stereotypes that hold us back, but by our personal passion, talents and...
Now we know that women can do what men can do, but we don't know that men can do what women can do. (Gloria Steinem) (p.120)
It’s a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized.
Free to Be . . . You and Me
Believe you matter and you spend more time helping others, which helps you matter even more. Believe you have strengths and you start seeing opportunities to use them. Believe you are a wizard who can...
Women only apply for open jobs if they think they meet 100 percent of the criteria listed. Men apply if they think they meet 60 percent of the requirements.7
When you want to change things, you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress.
More involved dads,
Women became 50 percent of the college graduates in the United States in the early 1980s.5 Since then, women have slowly and steadily advanced, earning more and more of the college degrees, taking mor...
Trying to overcorrect is a great way to find middle ground. In order for me to speak the right amount in a meeting, I have to feel as if I am saying very little.
Option A is not available. So let’s just kick the shit out of Option B.
Miscommunication is always a two-way street. (p.85)
It takes a near act of rebellion for even a four-year-old to break away from society's expectations.
It is time for us to face that our revolution has stalled.