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| d78fcd4 | Only 74 percent of professional women will rejoin the workforce in any capacity, and only 40 percent will return to full-time jobs [after taking time out of the workforce to raise children]. Those who rejoin will often see their earnings decrease dramatically. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 18e1e76 | Girls growing up today are not the first generation to have equal opportunity, but they are the first to know that all that opportunity does not necessarily translate into profesional achievement. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 00ebfc1 | gender bias influences how we view performance and typically raises our assessment of men while lowering our assessment of women. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| eb0296e | If I had to embrace a definition of success, it would be that success is making the best choices we can ... and accepting them. Journalist Mary Curtis suggested in The Washington Post that the best advice anyone can offer "is for women and men to drop the guilt trip, even as the minutes tick away. The secret is there is no secret--just doing the best you can with what you've got."32" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 36053ff | The keynote speaker, Dr. Peggy McIntosh from the Wellesley Centers for Women, gave a talk called "Feeling Like a Fraud."1 She explained that many people, but especially women, feel fraudulent when they are praised for their accomplishments. Instead of feeling worthy of recognition, they feel undeserving and guilty, as if a mistake has been made. Despite being high achievers, even experts in their fields, women can't seem to shake the sense .. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 9610dfa | In 2012, a series of studies compared men in more "modern" marriages (whose wives worked outside the home full-time) to men in more "traditional" marriages (whose wives worked at home). The researchers wanted to determine if a man's home arrangement affected his professional behavior. It did. Compared to men in modern marriages, men in more traditional marriages viewed the presence of women in the workforce less favorably. They also denied .. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| a55f86c | Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders--including female leaders themselves. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 039fe1d | Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder." As Lori describes it, ladders are limiting--people can move up or down, on or off. Jungle gyms offer more creative exploration. There's only one way to get to the top of a ladder, but there are many ways to get to the top of a jungle gym. The jungle gym model benefits everyone," | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 259ec07 | There are still countries that deny women basic civil rights. Worldwide, about 4.4 million women and 1 girls are trapped in the sex trade. In places like Afghanistan and Sudan, girls receive little or no education, wives are treated as the property of their husbands, and women who are raped are routinely cast out of their homes for disgracing their families. Some rape victims are even sent to jail for committing a "moral crime."2 We are cen.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| cca7ff9 | In 1975, stay-at-home mothers spent an average of about eleven hours per week on primary child care (defined as routine caregiving and activities that foster a child's well-being, such as reading and fully focused play). Mothers employed outside the home in 1975 spent six hours doing these activities. Today, stay-at-home mothers spend about seventeen hours per week on primary child care, on average, while mothers who work outside the home s.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 07fc440 | Social scientists have observed that when members of a group are made aware of a negative stereotype, they are more likely to perform according to that stereotype. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| dbf92ee | This experiment supports what research has already clearly shown: success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women.3 When a man is successful, he is liked by both men and women. When a woman is successful, people of both genders like her less. This truth is both shocking and unsurprising: shocking because no one would ever admit to stereotyping on the basis of gender and unsurprising because clea.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| ec26630 | Now I proudly call myself a feminist. If Tip O'Neill were alive today, I might even tell him that I'm a pom-pom girl for feminism. I hope more women, and men, will join me in accepting this distinguished label. Currently, only 24 percent of women in the United States say that they consider themselves feminists. Yet when offered a more specific definition of feminism--"A feminist is someone who believes in social, political, and economic equ.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| af13e51 | Fred Kofman, a former MIT professor and author of Conscious Business. Dave | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 1922d38 | Progress remains equally sluggish when it comes to compensation. In 1970, American women were paid 59 cents for every dollar their male counterparts made. By 2010, women had protested, fought, and worked their butts off to raise that compensation to 77 cents for every dollar men made.10 As activist Marlo Thomas wryly joked on Equal Pay Day 2011, "Forty years and eighteen cents. A dozen eggs have gone up ten times that amount."11" | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| b0c00d5 | Okay, so all a woman has to do is ignore society's expectations, be ambitious, sit at the table, work hard, and then it's smooth sailing all the way. What could possibly go wrong? | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 34aa43a | Professor Gruenfeld was able to explain the price women pay for success: "Our entrenched cultural ideas associate men with leadership qualities and women with nurturing qualities and put women in a double blind," she said. "We believe not only that women are nurturing, but that they *should* be nurturing above all else. When a woman does anything that signals she might not be nice first and foremost, it creates a negative impression and mak.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 5d5eef3 | When husbands work fifty or more hours per week, wives with children are 44 percent more likely to quit their jobs than wives with children whose husbands work less. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 91f52fc | It's no surprise that married and cohabitating men whose mothers were employed while they were growing up do more housework as adults than other men. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 6c20e06 | Women provide more than twice as much care not only for their own parents, but for their in-laws as well. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 6775d4f | Guilt management can be just as important as time management. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 885aed0 | in order to fix the problems we needed to be able to talk about gender without people thinking we were crying for help. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 04773ae | Staying quiet and fitting in may have been all the first generations of women who entered corporate America could do; in some cases, it might still be the safest path. But this strategy is not paying off for women as a group. Instead, we need to speak out, identify the barriers that are holding women back, and find solutions. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 288f08d | The most common metaphor for careers is a ladder, but this concept no longer applies to most workers. As of 2010, the average American had eleven jobs from the ages of eighteen to forty-six alone.1 This means that the days of joining an organization or corporation and staying there to climb that one ladder are long gone. Lori often quotes Pattie Sellers, who conceived a much better metaphor: "Careers are a jungle gym, not a ladder." | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| f71f326 | A survey of high-earning professionals in the corporate world found that 62 percent work more than fifty hours a week and 10 percent work more than eighty hours per week.18 Technology, while liberating us at times from the physical office, has also extended the workday. A 2012 survey of employed adults showed that 80 percent of the respondents continued to work after leaving the office, 38 percent checked e-mail at the dinner table, and 69 .. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 7ccb21d | The simple act of talking openly about behavioral patterns makes the subconscious conscious. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 8c31fd3 | Given how fast the world moves today, grabbing opportunities is more important than ever. Few managers have the time to carefully consider all the applicants for a job, much less convince more reticent people to apply. And increasingly, opportunities are not well defined but, instead, come from someone jumping in to do something. That something then becomes his job. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 0c18616 | As more women lean in to their careers, more men need to lean in to their families. We need to encourage men to be more ambitious in their homes. We need more men to sit at the table ... the kitchen table. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 4d00f47 | When I first joined Facebook, I was working with a team to answer the critical question of how best to grow our business. The conversations were getting heated, with many people arguing their own positions strongly. We ended the week without consensus. Dan Rose, leader of our deal team, spent the weekend gathering market data that allowed us to reframe the conversation in analytics. His effort broke the logjam. I then expanded Dan's respons.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 0a78ba6 | SOMETIMES I WONDER what it would be like to go through life without being labeled by my gender. I don't wake up thinking, What am I going to do today as Facebook's female COO?, but that's often how I'm referred to by others. When people talk about a female pilot, a female engineer, or a female race car driver, the word "female" implies a bit of surprise." | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 96d956b | It's a cliche, but opportunities are rarely offered; they're seized. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 1ee6585 | As the graduates were called to the stage to collect their diplomas, I shook every hand. Many stopped to give me a hug. One young woman even told me I was "the baddest bitch" (which, having checked with someone later, actually did turn out to be a compliment)." | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 7348763 | What would you do if you weren't afraid? | business career inspirational self-help self-help-women women | Sheryl Sandberg | |
| 53ff2b1 | I thought (...) the proverbial glass ceiling had been cracked (...) and I believed that it was just a matter of time until my generation took our fair share of the leadership roles. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| f557f10 | It is time for us to face that our revolution has stalled. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| f352aa9 | To this day, I'm embarrassed that I didn't realize that pregnant women needed reserved parking until I experienced my own aching feet. As one of Google's most senior women, didn't I have a special responsibility to think of this? | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 9aec467 | In addition to the external barriers erected by society, women are hindered by barriers that exist within ourselves. 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. We internalize the negative messages we get throughout our lives--the messages that say it's wrong to be outspoken, aggressive, more powerful than men. We lower our own exp.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 408e3be | Our entrenched cultural ideas associate men with leadership qualities and women with nurturing qualities and put women in a double bind," she said. "We believe not only that women are nurturing, but that they should be nurturing above all else. When a woman does anything that signals she might not be nice first and foremost, it creates a negative impression and makes us uncomfortable." | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 6842695 | The pipeline that supplies the educated workforce is clock-full of women at the entry level, but by the time that same pipeline is filling leadership positions, it is overwhelmingly stocked with men. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 880fa52 | Men at the top are often unaware of the benefits they enjoy simply because they're men, and this can make them blind to the disadvantages associated with being a woman. Women lower down also believe that men at the top are entitled to be there, so they try to play by the rules and work harder to advance rather than raise questions or voice concerns about the possibility of bias. As a result, everyone becomes complicit in perpetuating an unj.. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 2f24ccf | This phenomenon of capable people being plagued by self-doubt has a name---the impostor syndrome. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 0d55fa3 | Because the vast majority of leaders are men, it is not possible to generalize from any one example. But the dearth of female leaders causes one woman to be viewed as representative of her entire gender. And because people often discount and dislike female leaders, these generalizations are often critical. This is not just unfair to the individuals but reinforces the stigma that successful women are unlikeable. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 96c4037 | All of us --men and women alike-- have to understand and acknowledge how stereotypes and biases cloud our beliefs and perpetuate the status quo. | Sheryl Sandberg | ||
| 60f8e5b | Anyone who wants her mate to be a true partner must treat him as an equal--and equally capable--partner. And if that's not reason enough, bear in mind that a study found that wives who engage in gatekeeping behaviors do five more hours of family work per week than wives who take a more collaborative approach.9 | Sheryl Sandberg |