Speak Up. Believe In Yourself.

We Need Women At All Levels, Including The Top, To Change The Dynamic, Reshape The Conversation, To Make Sure Women’s Voices Are Heard And Heeded, Not Overlooked And Ignored.

There Is No Straight Path From Your Seat Today To Where You Are Going. Don't Try To Draw That Line. You Will Not Just Get It Wrong, You'll Miss Big Opportunities. And I Mean Big-like The Internet. Careers Are Not Ladders, Those Days Are Long Gone, But Jungle Gyms. Don't Just Move Up And Down, Don't Just Look Up, Look Backwards, Sideways Around Corners. Your Career And Your Life Will Have Starts And Stops And Zigs And Zags. Don't Stress Out About The White Space-the Path You Can't Draw- Because There In Lies Both The Surprises And The Opportunities.

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.

We Call Our Little Girls Bossy. Go To A Playground; Little Girls Get Called Bossy All The Time - A Word That's Almost Never Used For Boys - And That Leads Directly To The Problems Women Face In The Workforce.

Today, Despite All Of The Gains We Have Made, Neither Men Nor Women Have Real Choice. Until Women Have Supportive Employers And Colleagues As Well As Partners Who Share Family Responsibilities, They Don't Have Real Choice. And Until Men Are Fully Respected For Contributing Inside The Home, They Don't Have Real Choice Either.