If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can . . . and accepting them.
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, you don’t ask what seat. You just get on.
The result of creating a more equal environment will not just be better performance for our organizations, but quite likely greater happiness for all.
Although it can be extremely difficult to grasp, the disappearance of one possible self can free us to imagine a new possible self. After
It takes a near act of rebellion for even a four-year-old to break away from society's expectations.
By focusing on her career and taking a calculated approach to amassing power, Heidi violated our stereotypical expectations of women. Yet by behaving in the same manner, Howard lived up to our stereot...
It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.
Professional ambition is expected of men but is optional—or worse, sometimes even a negative—for women. She is very ambitious is not a compliment in our culture.
Okay, so all a woman has to do is ignore society's expectations, be ambitious, sit at the table, work hard, and then it's smooth sailing all the way. What could possibly go wrong?
Like me, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, deputy director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women and Foreign Policy Program, was encouraged to prioritize marriage over career. As she described in The Atlanti...
Whoever has the power takes the noun while the less powerful get an adjective. No one wants her achievements modified.We all just want to be the noun.
I almost hate to say this, but I am the happiest I have ever been in my life, she told me. Sometimes it takes going through something so awful to realize the beauty that is out there in this world. Br...
But I also know that in order to continue to grow and challenge myself, I have to believe in my own abilities. I still face situations that I fear are beyond my capabilities. I still have days when I...
Think personally, act communally.
Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception.
Over the past decade, child care costs have risen twice as fast as the median income of families with children.
In many cases, women need to be more open to taking risks in their careers.
For men, professional success comes with positive reinforcement at every step of the way. For women, even when they’re recognized for their achievements, they’re often regarded unfavorably.
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, you don’t ask what seat. You just get on. I
Women can enter (...) negotiations with the knowledge that showing concern for the common good, even as they negotiate for themselves, will strengthen their position.
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