I’m not pretending I can give advice to every single person or every single couple for every situation; I’m making the point that we are not going to get to equality in the workforce before we get to equality in the home. Not going to happen.
I’m not telling women to be like men. I’m telling us to evaluate what men and women do in the workforce and at home without the gender bias.
In fact, my New Year’s resolution every year, and I’m Jewish so I get two New Years a year, is to meditate, and I fail every time.
Pages on Facebook are allowed to be anonymous. That is really important. People start revolutions; we need anonymity.
The No. 1 impediment to women succeeding in the workforce is now in the home.
When I was in high school, I was voted most likely to succeed.
I don’t pretend there aren’t biological differences, but I don’t believe the desire for leadership is hardwired biology, not the desire to win or excel. I believe that it’s socialization, that we’re socializing our daughters to nurture and our boys to lead.
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.’
Men can comfortably claim credit for what they do as long as they don’t veer into arrogance. For women, taking credit comes at a real social and professional cost.
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.
Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to do his share in the home. These men exist and, trust me, over time, nothing is sexier.
Women systematically underestimate their own abilities.
No one gets to the top, if they sit on the sidelines, or if they don’t believe in themselves.
I want my daughter to have the choice not just to succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.
Without fear, women can pursue professional success and personal fulfillment-and freely choose one, or the other, or both.
Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.
And anyway, who wears a tiara on a jungle gym?
The best way to make room for both life and career is to make choices deliberately-to set limits and stick to them.
At Facebook, we try to be a strengths-based organization, which means we try to make jobs fit around people rather than make people fit around jobs. We focus on what people’s natural strengths are and spend our management time trying to find ways for them to use those strengths every day.
The most important career decision you’ll make is who your life partner is.