If more women are in leadership roles, we’ll stop assuming they shouldn’t be.
SHERYL SANDBERGFraming the issue of work-life balance – as if the two were dramatically opposed – practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?
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Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
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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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So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.
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Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby.
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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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Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.
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Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else’s point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.
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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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The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.
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In the future, there will be no female leaders. There will just be leaders.
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If you ask men why they did a good job, they’ll say, ‘I’m awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?’ If you ask women why they did a good job, what they’ll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.
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When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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Build your skills, not your resume.
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When people are really suffering, and we know they’re suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.
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