We Need To Stop Telling

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.

I Believe We Need Affordable Child Care. I Believe We Need Flexibility. I Believe We Need Institutional Reform And Public Policy Reform.

It's Hard To Visualize Someone As A Leader, If She Is Always Waiting To Be Told What To Do.

Framing The Issue Of Work-life Balance - As If The Two Were Dramatically Opposed - Practically Ensures Work Will Lose Out. Who Would Ever Choose Work Over Life?

I Wish I Were Strong Enough To Ignore What Others Say, But Experience Tells Me I Often Can't. Allowing Myself To Feel Upset, Even Really Upset, And Then Move On - That's Something I Can Do.