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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

Sheryl Sandberg

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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Achievement Childhood Expectation Leadership Live Men Ourselves Reason Women
Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
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Change Female Leadership. Comfortable Need
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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Believe Confidence Hands Ourselves
Done is better than perfect.
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Complete Improvement Perfection
Next time you’re about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, ‘My daughter has executive leadership skills.’
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Breathe Leadership Perspective Skill Time Yourself
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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Achievement Goodness Man Marriage Myself Parents Woman Young
Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
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Authentic Leadership Perfection Powerful Women
The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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Home Success Women
Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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Career Work
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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Believe Communication Silence Start Truth Understand View
Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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Believe Inspirational Risk Yourself
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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Company Different Focus Growth Oneself
Build your skills, not your resume.
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Choice Skill Yourself
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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Change Learning Myself Need Perspective Thinking
Until women are as ambitious as men, they’re not gong to achieve as much as men.
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Achievement Ambition Men Success
Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
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Ability Women Worth

The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.

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