If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, you don’t ask what seat. You just get on. I
If I had to embrace a definiton of success, it would be that success is making the best choices that we can... and accepting them. Journalist Mary Curtis suggested in The Washington Post that the best...
I have seen this dynamic play out over and over. When a woman excels at her job, both male and female coworkers will remark that she may be accomplishing a lot but is not as well-liked by her peers. S...
He discovered that his own reaction to his disability influenced how others reacted, which meant he could control how he was perceived.
Guilt management can be just as important as time management.
Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers. (p.138)
Authentic communication is not always easy, but it is the basis for successful relationships at home and real effectiveness at work.
At times, staying in the same functional area and in the same organization creates inertia and limits opportunities to expand. Seeking out diverse experiences is useful preparation for leadership. (p....
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...
As a child I never thought about what I wanted to be, but I thought a lot about what I wanted to do.
Although pundits and politicians, usually male, often claim that motherhood is the most important and difficult work of all, women who take time out of the workforce pay a big career penalty. Only 74...
Once a woman achieves success, particularly in a gender-biased context, her capacity to see gender discrimination is reduced.
It's more pressure on women to - if they marry or partner with someone, to partner with the right person. Because you cannot have a full career and a full life at home with your children if you are al...
In addition to the external barriers erected by society, women are hindered by barriers that exist within ourselves. We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by n...
Women are not making it to the top. A hundred and ninety heads of state nine are women. Of all the people in parliament in the world, thirteen per cent are women. In the corporate sector, women at the...
You take someone to the airport, it’s clearly the beginning of the relationship. That’s why I have never taken anyone to the airport at the beginning of a relationship. SALLY: Why? HARRY: Beca...
Within traditional institutions, success has often been contingent upon a woman not speaking out but fitting in, or more colloquially, being one of the guys.
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...
When a man is successful, he is liked by both men and women. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less.
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...