Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
Fear is at the root of so many of the barriers that women face. Fear of not being liked. Fear of making the wrong choice. Fear of drawing negative attention. Fear of overreaching. Fear of being judged. Fear of failure. And the holy trinity of fear: the fear of being a bad mother/wife/daughter.
Sheryl Sandberg • Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead
So instead of saying, “It’s beyond our mandate,” we said, “We want to help protect you from violence. How can we do that?”
Melinda French Gates • The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
The labor-market conditions that will generate convergence in pay between genders – the technological and institutional changes that reduce the cost of temporal flexibility – will make life better for almost everybody.
Claudia Goldin • How to Achieve Gender Equality
What I’ve seen in twenty years of work with the foundation is that if we can help lift up all women, we will change the world. There are a lot of forces pushing women down today. I’ve seen it in country after country, all over the world. If you lift up women, they lift up everybody else around them. That ultimately lifts up a community and a countr
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