Often without realising it, women internalise disparaging cultural attitudes and then echo them back. As a result, women are not just victims of sexist, they can also be perpetrators.
Major changes can result from these kinds of nudge techniques, small interventions that encourage people to behave in slightly different ways at critical moments.4
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...
It's a jungle gym, not a ladder.
It bothered me because like most people who have choices, I am not completely comfortable with mine.
In many cases, women need to be more open to taking risks in their careers.2
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...
If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them. (p.140)
Guilt management can be just as important as time management for mothers. (p.138)
Given how fast the world moves today, grabbing opportunities is more important than ever. Few managers have the time to carefully consider all the applicants for a job, much less convince more reticen...
Fortune favors the bold.
Do not wait for power to be offered. Like that tiara, it might never materialize. And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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 the elephant in the room went unacknowledged, it started acting up, trampling over my relationships.
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...
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...
And what I saw happening is that women don't make one decision to leave the workforce. They makes lots of little decisions really far in advance that kind of inevitably lead them there.
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....