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Everyone Knows That Marriage Is The Biggest Personal Decision You Make, But It's The Biggest Career Decision You Can Make.

Women Are Not Making It To The Top. A Hundred And Ninety Heads Of State; Nine Are Women. Of All The People In Parliament In The World, Thirteen Per Cent Are Women. In The Corporate Sector, Women At The Top - C-level Jobs, Board Seats - Tops Out At Fifteen, Sixteen Per Cent.

In Those Same 10 Years, Women Are Getting More And More Of The Graduate Degrees, More And More Of The Undergraduate Degrees, And It's Translating Into More Women In Entry-level Jobs, Even More Women In Lower-level Management. But There's Absolutely Been No Progress At The Top. You Can't Explain Away 10 Years. Ten Years Of No Progress Is No Progress.

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.

I Realized That Searching For A Mentor Has Become The Professional Equivalent Of Waiting For Prince Charming. We All Grew Up On The Fairy Tale "seeping Beauty," Which Instructs Young Women That If They Just Wait For Their Prince To Arrive, They Will Be Kissed And Whisked Away On A White Horse To Live Happily Ever After. Now Young Women Are Told That If They Can Just Find The Right Mentor, They Will Be Pushed Up The Ladder And Whisked Away To The Corner Office To Live Happily Ever After. Once Again, We Are Teaching Women To Be Too Dependent On Others.