I go around the room and ask people, ‘What do you think?’
The most important thing we’re doing differently is that we talk openly about gender at Facebook.
It’s hard to visualize someone as a leader, if she is always waiting to be told what to do.
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.
I have a five year-old son and a three year-old daughter. I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home. And I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.
Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where women with a surplus of talent still face a deficit of opportunity.
Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be okay but acknowledging that it is not.
The most important thing is to have a more open and honest dialogue about gender issues.
We’ve ceased making progress at the top in any industry anywhere in the world. In the United States, women have had 14% of the top corporate jobs and 17% of the board seats for 10 years. Ten years of no progress.
I spent most of my career, including my time at McKinsey, never acknowledging that I was a woman. And, you know, fast forward – I’m 43 now – fitting in is not helping us.
When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands.
When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated, and ambitious.
Social media has created a historical shift from the historically powerful to the historically powerless. Now everyone has a voice.
Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.
Coming from Google, you don’t exactly spend a lot of time at Microsoft.
Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.
I’d like to see where boys and girls end up if they get equal encouragement I think we might have some differences in how leadership is done.
There is no such thing as work-life balance. There is work, there is life, and there is no balance.
If you are pleasing everyone, you are not making enough progress.