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Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.

Sheryl Sandberg

When people are really suffering, and we know they’re suffering, that question can be a very difficult one. Inadvertently, I think without anyone meaning it, it communicates a lack of empathy.
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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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Anger Better Expectation Goodness Leadership Place Voice Women Work World Yourself
Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder.
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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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Being confident and believing in your own self-worth is necessary to achieving your potential.
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If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
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The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.
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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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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 tell people in their careers, ‘Look for growth. Look for the teams that are growing quickly. Look for the companies that are doing well. Look for a place where you feel that you can have a lot of impact.’
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When you’re more valuable, the people around you will do more to make it work.
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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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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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The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
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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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Job Myself Woman Work
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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