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.
SHERYL SANDBERGI’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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I want to tell any young girl out there who’s a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.
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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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I have never worked for a woman, and I have never worked with a lot of women.
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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
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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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Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.
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No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where women with a surplus of talent still face a deficit of opportunity.
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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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Give us a world where half our homes are run by men and half our institutions are run by women. I’m pretty sure that would be a better world.
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I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop. Nobody can succeed on their own.
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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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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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We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.
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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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Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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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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Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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I really think we need more women to lean into their careers and to be really dedicated to staying in the work force.
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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.
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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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Talking can transform minds, which can transform behaviors, which can transform institutions.
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When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
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