When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
SHERYL SANDBERGMost people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way – not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.
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Women need to shift form thinking “I’m not ready to do that” to thinking “I want to do that- and I’ll learn by doing it.
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Feeling confident – or pretending that you feel confident – is necessary to reach for opportunities. It’s a cliché, but opportunities are rarely offered; they’re seized.
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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way – not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.
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The gender stereotypes introduced in childhood are reinforced throughout our lives and become self-fulfilling prophesies. Most leadership positions are held by men, so women don’t expect to achieve them, and that becomes one of the reasons they don’t.
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Women attribute their success to working hard, luck, and help from other people. Men will attribute that – whatever success they have, that same success – to their own core skills.
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I’m a feminist because I believe in women, it’s a heavy word, feminism, but it’s not one I think we should run from. I’m proud to be a feminist.
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Your life’s course will not be determined by doing the things that you are certain you can do. Those are the easy things. It will be determined by whether you try the things that are hard.
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When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands.
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Nobody can succeed on their own.
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I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
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We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.
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Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
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A truly equal world would be one where women ran half our countries and companies and men ran half our homes.
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It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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Motivation comes from working on things we care about. It also comes from working with people we care about.
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Everyone knows that marriage is the biggest personal decision you make, but it’s the biggest career decision you can make.
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We’re focused on doing one thing incredibly well. If you look at other companies, all of these companies are doing a lot of different things but we’re still, as we grow, doing exactly one thing.
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When woman work outside the home and share breadwinning duties, couples are more likely to stay together. In fact, the risk of divorce reduces by about half when a wife earns half the income and a husband does half the housework.
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We need to stop telling [women], “Get a mentor and you will excel.” Instead, we need to tell them, “Excel and you will get a mentor.
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If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
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Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.
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Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
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It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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