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

Sheryl Sandberg

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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Hard Work Men People Skill Success Women
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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When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.
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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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Age Encouragement Job Leadership Nation Progress Thinking Woman World Young
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
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Chance Inspirational Life Motivational Opportunity Yourself
When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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When you want to change things, you won’t please everyone.
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Change Perseverance Success
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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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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The cost of stability is often diminished opportunities for growth.
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Build your skills, not your resume.
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Choice Skill Yourself
But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.
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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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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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It’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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