If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
SHERYL SANDBERGA 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 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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I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
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We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.
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So there’s no such thing as work-life balance. There’s work, and there’s life, and there’s no balance.
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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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Bring your whole self to work. I don’t believe we have a professional self Monday through Friday and a real self the rest of the time. It is all professional and it is all personal.
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Speak up. Believe in yourself. Take risks.
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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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It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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Framing the issue of work-life balance – as if the two were dramatically opposed – practically ensures work will lose out. Who would ever choose work over life?
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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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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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Don’t make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you’re not even conscious you’re making.
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Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
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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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