I’m not telling women to be like men. I’m telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.
SHERYL SANDBERGIt’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 also doing all of the housework and child care.
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But I really believe that when you give people authentic identity, which is what Facebook does, and you can be your real self and connect with real people online, things will change.
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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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When I went to college, as much as my parents emphasized academic achievement, they emphasized marriage even more. They told me that the most eligible women marry young to get a ‘good man’ before they are all taken.
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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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Framing 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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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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And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
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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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I know from my own experience that the path to change is best traveled when we travel together.
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Women have made tons of progress. But we still have a small percentage of the top jobs in any industry, in any nation in the world. I think that’s partly because from a very young age, we encourage our boys to lead and we call our girls bossy.
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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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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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Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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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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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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