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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 Sandberg

When companies offer support and assistance for personal and family hardships, their employees become more loyal and more productive.
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Connection Family Loyalty Organization Support
If you do please everyone, you are not making enough progress.
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Enough Inspirational Progress
It’s time to cheer on girls and women who want to sit at the table.
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Space Time Women
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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Authentic Believe Change Connection Myself People
It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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Herself Leadership Visual Wait
Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
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Change Female Leadership. Comfortable Need
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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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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Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
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I don’t pretend there aren’t biological differences, but I don’t believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it’s socialization, that we’re socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.
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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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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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Company People Value Worth Yourself
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
So please ask yourself: What would I do if I weren’t afraid? And then go do it.
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Afraid Brave Myself Yourself
Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way – not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.
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Care Children Couple Fundamental People Responsibility Women
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
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Best Frustration Perfection Worst

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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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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