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...
In many cases, women need to be more open to taking risks in their careers.
Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception.
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.
We need more portrayals of women as competent professionals and happy mothers - or even happy professionals and competent mothers.
As a child I never thought about what I wanted to be, but I thought a lot about what I wanted to do.
As an associate at McKinsey & Company, my first assignment was on a team that consisted of a male senior engagement manager (SEM) and two other male associates, Abe Wu and Derek Holley. When the SEM w...
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...
It is hard to visualize someone as a leader if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, you don’t ask what seat. You just get on. I
I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter....
One of the cases we worked on concerned the shortage of organ donations, which results in eighteen deaths each day in the United States alone. I never forgot this case, and seventeen years later, Face...
Women face real obstacles in the professional world, including blatant and subtle sexism,
Second, I try to set more personal goals for learning new skills in the next eighteen months.
When husbands work fifty or more hours per week, wives with children are 44 percent more likely to quit their jobs than wives with children whose husbands work less.11 Many of these mothers are those...
Typically, my eighteen-month plan sets goals on two fronts. First and most important, I set targets for what my team can accomplish. Employees who concentrate on results and impact are the most valuab...
It is time for us to face that our revolution has stalled.
As psychologist David Caruso observes, American culture demands that the answer to the question ‘How are you?’ is not just ‘Good.’…We need to be ‘Awesome.’ Caruso adds, There’s this relentless drive...
Until we acknowledge it, the elephant is always there. By ignoring it, those who are grieving isolate themselves and those who could offer comfort create distance instead. Both sides need to reach out...
In the United Kingdom, women face wage penalties for time out of the labor force as well, with British mothers' average annual earnings decreasing by roughly 13 percent per child. (p.102)
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